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The Economics of Dowry Payments in Pakistan
Anderson, K.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000
Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenomenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse.The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan.Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091513
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Human capital effects of marriage payments
Anderson, Siwan - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) September, pp. 1-10
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959866
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The Economics of Dowry Payments in Pakistan.
Anderson, S. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999
Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenonmenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse. The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan. Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587806
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THE MENTAL HEALTH OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS BEFORE AND AFTER COHABITATION AND MARITAL DISSOLUTION
Dush, Claire M. Kamp; Adkins, Kate S. - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
low income sample of parents, results suggest that the impact of cohabitation and marital dissolution on mental health are …
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Are spouses more satisfied than cohabitors? A survey over the last twenty years in Italy
Pirani, Elena; Vignoli, Daniele - Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni … - 2014
On the social landscape of the high-middle-income countries, unmarried cohabitation has become an increasingly popular … living arrangement over the last decades. Several observers have noted a “cohabitation gap” in the satisfaction assessment of … how far cohabitation has diffused within a society. For the first time we test this hypothesis across time within one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929501
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, A. L.; Coles, Melvyn - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851358
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Peer Effects in Young Adults' Marital Decisions
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2012
This paper studies peer group effects on marital decisions. We use data from Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). This database contains detailed information on adolescents’ high school friends as well as their marital behavior later in life. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583572
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Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation
Grossbard, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959812
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labor supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703029
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666457