Economic Analysis of Decision-making on Age at Marriage

One of the scientific fields in social sciences that has attracted economists is analysis of marriage. This paper focuses on a dimension of family formation that is age at first marriage. The utility theory is the base of model in this paper. The purpose is to investigate the effect of some factors such as education، gender and income on the basis of regression analysis. The used sample includes 415 married men and 409 married women in Tehran. Findings are compatible to predictions of current model such that education has positive effect on age of marriage and it is observed that there is significant difference between sexes regarding to age at marriage. The negative relation of income or economic position to age at marriage is another result of this study. Accordingly، it is expected that reduction of economic gap in society would decrease the age of marriage.