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This paper examines age patterns of marriage, age patterns of motherhood and factors associated with the pace of marriage and of motherhood in Indonesia and Nepal. It also examines the effects of parents’ level of education. The authors identify education as one of the key factors associated with prevalence of early marriage and childbearing. For the analysis and comparison they use large-scale youth surveys conducted in Indonesia in 1999 and in Nepal in 2000. To understand the marriage and childbearing behavior in a larger demographic context, the authors examine the basic demographic conditions in these countries based on reports of demographic surveys.