This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from … however all likely to improve female schooling. We offer evidence from India consistent with our theoretical analysis …. -- Arranged marriage ; dowry ; bride price ; female literacy ; marriage markets ; stable marriage allocation …

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the medium-term (1991-2001) and long-term (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 Indian trade liberalization on marriage and … experienced relative increase in marriage rate compared to the districts that experienced smaller tariff cuts. Moreover, tariff … impact of tariff cuts on marriage rate or workforce participation among young for rural areas. In contrast, tariff cuts …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …

While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage …. We conduct an experiment on an online marriage market platform that allows us to measure preferences of individuals in …

Dowry payments are common in many marriage markets. This paper uses data on over 74,000 marriages in rural India over … dowry payments after 1975 and demonstrate that this could be rationalized within a search model of marriage markets. …