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The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with thecontinuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of laborfor the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretationis advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as...
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arrangement, the marriage system is prone to failure as a result of covariant risk and information and enforcement problems. It is …
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help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and … income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature this paper investigates not only whether but also how much risk pooling … households. However, the contributions of transfers to risk pooling and income redistribution are economically very limited. …
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help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and … income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature this paper investigates not only whether but also how much risk pooling … households. However, the contributions of transfers to risk pooling and income redistribution are economically very limited. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257209