Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

with their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity – in … particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband – impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …

Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income … gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

We derive the behavioural implications of legislation on the subject of marriage, divorce, de-facto unions, domestic …

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is … marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …

Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income … gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from … having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated brides, some parents can prevent costly household partition …

The empirical evidence on the role of a demographic marriage squeeze in the Indian dowry inflation of the last century … empirical literature on the Indian dowry inflation. I conclude that a demographic marriage squeeze remains a plausible … has been mixed. Moreover, Anderson (2005) argues in a theoretical setting, that a population growth-led marriage squeeze …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from … having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated brides, some parents can prevent costly household partition …