Educational attainment and the transition to first marriage among Japanese women From: Demography | Date: February 1, 2003| Author: Raymo, James M | Copyright Population Association of America Feb 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND THE TRANSITION TO FIRST MARRIAGE AMONG JAPANESE WOMEN*

I use data from a large nationally representative survey to examine the relationship between women's educational attainment and the timing offirst marriage in Japan. The results indicate that later marriage for highly educated women primarily reflects longer enrollment in school, that university education is increasingly associated with later and less marriage, and that the trend toward later and less ma...

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