Trends in the Timing of First Marriage Among Men and Women in the Developing World

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I S I O N R C H Trends in the Timing of First Marriage Among Men and Women in the Developing World D I V Barbara S. Mensch Susheela Singh John B. Casterline 2005 No. 202 P O L I C Y R E S E A One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York, New York 10017 USA www.popcouncil.org pubinfo@popcouncil.org This material may not be reproduced without written permission from the authors. For a list of Policy Research Division Working Papers, including those that are currently available for downloading in PDF format, see www.popcouncil.org/publications/wp/prd/rdwplist.html. ISSN: 1554-8538 © 2005 The Population Council, Inc. Trends in the Timing of First Marriage Among Men and Women in the Developing World Barbara S. Mensch, Susheela Singh, and John B. Casterline Barbara S. Mensch is Senior Associate, Policy Research Division, Population Council. Susheela Singh is Vice President for Research, The Alan Guttmacher Institute. John B. Casterline is Professor of Sociology and Demography, Population Research Institute, Penn State University. Acknowledgments: The authors are grateful to Monica Grant for much of the analysis for this paper; Shelley Clark for her insightful critique of the section on age at marriage and HIV risk; John Bongaarts for his analysis comparing singulate mean age at marriage with median age at marriage; and the NAS Panel on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries, especially Nan Astone, Jere R. Behrman, and Cynthia B. Lloyd, for useful comments. Funding for this study was provided by the U.K. Department for International Development, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Minneapolis, May 2003, and will also be published as

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