increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by … confirms that migration rates are higher in areas with stronger historical dowry traditions. Finally, exploiting a large …

par rapport au passé. Même si la forte migration de travail venue d’Europe de l’Est a contribué à la hausse du taux d …

insurance to their members. Unique panel data providing information on income, assets, gifts, loans, consumption, marriage, and … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …