School Characteristics and Marriage Timing in a Setting of Rapid Social Change

在快速变化的社会中，最值得注意的婚姻趋势之一是婚姻的趋势是 相对于历史标准而言，教育经常被认为是这些趋势背后的主要原因。 此外，一些研究还通过衡量教育机会的存在情况， 社区中的学校以及这些学校距离焦点个人有多远。虽然这些研究提供了 教育机构在社区中的作用，他们往往忽视了重要的 学校的差异？制度特征。先前研究中的这些局限性阻止了对 学校如何与个人相关联的理论问题？家庭形成。这是一个重要的遗漏 因为学校的不同特点可能与不同的机制有关， 对个人的后果？结婚时机该项目有三个具体的研究目标。1)到 研究学校特征的多个维度与婚姻时机之间的关系。虽然 先前的研究已经记录了学校在社区中的存在如何与各种各样的 关于个体行为，很少有研究测试学校的不同特征与个体有什么关系？ 家庭形成。2)测试学校特征与结婚时机之间的具体联系机制。作为 个人参加学校教育系统，除了婚姻之外，他们一生中的其他活动还包括 也可能改变。不同的学校特征暗示着涉及过程的个体机制 包括角色不相容、人力资本获得、非家庭工作经历、非家庭生活，以及 媒体消费。3)探讨性别差异在学校特色与 结婚时机先前的研究表明，教育经历可能会产生不同的后果， 男人和女人她的婚姻时机，有些经验加速了一种性别的婚姻，但推迟了 另一个的婚姻。我们有充分的理由预计，学校的特点也可能有所不同， 与男女的时间有关吗的婚姻。这个项目的背景是奇旺 尼泊尔的山谷。该项目能够利用详细的设置文档， 在现有居民的有生之年，大众教育已经普及。

One of the most notable marriage trends in rapidly changing societies is the trend toward marriages that are delayed relative to historical norms. Education is frequently invoked as a primary cause behind these trends. In addition, some studies have examined the context of educational opportunity by measuring the presence of schools in a community and how far away these schools are from focal individuals. While these studies offer useful insight into the role of educational institutions in a community, they have tended to overlook important variation in the schools? institutional characteristics. These limitations in prior studies prevent the testing of theoretical issues of how schools are related to individuals? family formation. This is an important omission because different characteristics of schools are likely to be associated with different mechanisms and consequences for individuals? marriage timing. This proposed project has three specific research goals. 1) To examine the relationship between multiple dimensions of school characteristics and marriage timing. Although prior research has documented how the mere presence of schools in a community is associated with a variety of individual behaviors, few studies have tested how distinct features of schools are related to individuals? family formation. 2) To test specific mechanisms linking school characteristics to marriage timing. As individuals participate in the schooling system, other activities in their life courses in addition to marriage are also likely to change. Distinct school characteristics implicate individual mechanisms involving processes including role incompatibility, human capital attainment, nonfamily work experiences, nonfamily living, and media consumption. 3) To examine gender differences in the relationships between school characteristics and marriage timing. Prior work has shown that the educational experience can have different consequences for men and women?s marriage timing, with some experiences accelerating marriage for one sex but delaying marriage for the other. There is good reason to expect that school characteristics may also be differentially related to the timing of men and women?s marriages. The setting for this proposed project is the Chitwan Valley in Nepal. The project is able to take advantage of detailed documentation of a setting in which the spread of mass education has taken place within the lifetimes of current residents.