Age of Marriage and Fertility. A Policy Review

Dennis Tray
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Dennis Tray: Patciatan Institute of Development Economics,

The Pakistan Development Review, 1977, vol. 16, issue 1, 89-100

Abstract: The average age at which women marry and the number of children they produce tend to be negatively correlated. This negative relationship has received a good deal of attention from social scientists over the past several decades, and it has on occasion been suggested that if governments could find a way to raise the average age of marriage, the result would be a significant reduction in completed fertility. I Since reduction of population growth rates is an explicit policy of many developing nations, particularly Pakistan, it seems worth taking a closer look at age of marriage as a policy tool.

Date: 1977
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