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

在快速变化的社会中，最引人注目的婚姻趋势之一是 相对于历史标准而言，这是一种延迟。教育经常被认为是这些趋势背后的主要原因。 此外，一些研究还通过测量教育机会的存在来考察教育机会的背景 社区中的学校，以及这些学校离焦点个人有多远。虽然这些研究提供了 对教育机构在社区中的作用的有用洞察，他们往往忽视了 学校里的变化？制度特征。先前研究中的这些限制阻碍了对 学校如何与个人相关的理论问题？家庭的形成。这是一个重要的遗漏 因为学校的不同特点很可能与不同的机制和 对个人的后果是什么？结婚的时机。这项拟议的项目有三个具体的研究目标。1)至 考察学校特征的多个维度与结婚时机之间的关系。虽然 以前的研究已经记录了一个社区中仅有学校的存在是如何与各种 在个人行为方面，很少有研究测试学校的明显特征与个人的关系？ 家庭的形成。2)测试学校特征与结婚时机之间的具体联系机制。AS 个人参与学校系统，在他们的生活过程中除婚姻外的其他活动是 也有可能发生变化。鲜明的学校特点牵涉到涉及过程的个体机制 包括角色不匹配、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)考察学校特征与学校发展之间关系的性别差异 结婚的时机。先前的研究表明，教育经历可能会对 男与女？S结婚时机，一男一女提早结婚有心得 另一方的婚姻。我们有充分的理由预计，学校的特点也可能有所不同。 男女结婚的时机有关吗？S结婚了。这个拟建项目的背景是奇特旺 尼泊尔的山谷。项目能够利用环境的详细文档，在该环境中 大众教育的普及已经发生在当前居民的一生中。

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.