This paper investigates how educational and geographic capital are assorted among households in rural Nepal, and how women's marital age may shape this distribution. Our focus on the timing of marriage adds a new dimension to studies of geographies of youth and marital assortment, while our emphasis on the physical and spatial attributes of households leads us to propose the concept of geographic capital, operationalised here as agrarian landholding and access to rural markets. Using data on 17,284 women from rural lowland Nepal, heat tables showed substantial pairing among uneducated spouses, whereas educated men married women with varying levels of schooling, partly because fewer women were educated. Multivariable logistic regression models showed that the odds of marrying an educated man increased substantially for women with secondary education, and vice versa. Educated women were also more likely to marry into households with geographic capital. However, landowning husbands tended to marry younger wives, perhaps because the natal home was prepared to marry daughters earlier in order to access this geographic capital. The youngest-marrying women were least likely to marry into households with accessibility to markets. Our findings may help understand the decisions of both a woman's natal and marital household over the timing of her marriage, and the investment in her formal education. These patterns have implications for both spouses because capital not only shapes marital pairing, but also the spatial niche of the household within which women and their children will experience their life-course.

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走到一起：婚姻在尼泊尔农村低地家庭教育和地理资本分类中的作用

本文调查了尼泊尔农村家庭中教育资本和地理资本的分布情况，以及女性的婚龄如何影响这种分布。我们对结婚时间的关注为青年地理和婚姻组合的研究增加了一个新的维度，而我们对家庭的物理和空间属性的强调使我们提出了地理资本的概念，在这里作为农业土地所有权和获得农村市场。使用来自尼泊尔农村低地的 17,284 名女性的数据，热量表显示未受过教育的配偶之间存在大量配对，而受过教育的男性与受教育程度不同的女性结婚，部分原因是受过教育的女性较少。多变量逻辑回归模型显示，受过中等教育的女性嫁给受过教育的男性的几率显着增加，反之亦然。受过教育的女性也更有可能嫁入拥有地理资本的家庭。然而，拥有土地的丈夫倾向于娶年轻的妻子，这可能是因为娘家准备较早娶女儿，以便进入这个地理资本。最年轻的已婚女性最不可能嫁入有市场准入的家庭。我们的研究结果可能有助于了解女性的原生家庭和婚姻家庭对她结婚时间的决定，以及对她正规教育的投资。这些模式对配偶双方都有影响，因为资本不仅塑造了婚姻配对，