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 …

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 …. The investigation concludes that despite religious and cultural differences, the phenomenon of dowry in Pakistan appears …

conflictual interactions within the household.Participation in a rosca is a strategy a wife employs to protect her savings against …

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 …

, dowry payments and a masculine sex ratio.The result holds for parameters consistent with marriage market indicators in India. …India has experienced a much-documented dowry inflation since the 1950s, which has been attributed to a spurt in … price? My paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of marriage markets, sex-ratio choice and population growth …

The focus of this study is to estimate an equation explaining the determinants of dowry. In this paper, we address a … very common socio-economic problem for sub-continent, the problem of dowry. From a social planner's perspective, who wants … to reduce overall dowry transfers, we consider the effect of change in a few relevant parameters like husband height …

gender wage gap and the improvement in household production technology on the agents’ marital decisions. … cohabiting. Furthermore, cohabiting couples differ from married ones. They tend to share household tasks and market works more …-sectional differences between cohabiting and married couples. To this end, we build a two-period model of marriage and cohabitation with …

, while also examining reporting differences in father involvement by parent gender. Data on 4,224 mother-father pairs are … than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage …