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Human capital effects of marriage payments : investing in femal human capital can reduce brideprice and dowry practices and increase welfare
Anderson, Siwan - 2014
parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has …
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Why the Marriage Squeeze Cannot Cause Dowry Inflation
Anderson, Siwan - 2001
It has been argued that rising dowry payments are caused by population growth. According to that explanation, termed … result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage market. The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do … not re-enter the marriage market. This paper demonstrates that the marriage squeeze argument cannot explain dowry …
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Population dynamics and marriage payments : an analysis of the long run equilibrium in India
Maitra, Sudeshna - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 18 (2018) 2, pp. 1-26
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Modeling eldercare by children and children-in-law : the role of marriage institutions
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2017
care for older in-laws could be related to the presence of brideprice or dowry transfers (or their in-kind equivalents) and …
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Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India
Das, Shreyasee; Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2022
early to save on dowry expenditures. We confirm this underlying mechanism by using a proxy for dowry payments. Our results …
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The Role of Own-Group Density and Local Social Norms for Ethnic Marital Sorting : Evidence from the UK
Vickery, Alexander - 2019
We present a structural marriage market model where individuals differ in ethnicity and qualifications, and where marital choices are affected by social conformity preferences. The model is estimated using White, Black and Asian individuals born in the UK between 1965 and 1989, and is identified...
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Optimal weights for marital sorting measures
Almar, Frederik; Schulz, Bastian - 2023
Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of educationbased marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326395
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Optimal weights for marital sorting measures
Almar, Frederik; Schulz, Bastian - 2023
Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331737
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Marriage payments and bargaining power of women in rural Bangladesh
Mansoor, Nazia - 2011
This study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the use of contraceptives in the household. Using data from rural Bangladesh in 1998-1999 it investigates whether women in a relatively strong bargaining position at the time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position...
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Gender identity and relative income within households : evidence from Sweden
Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Stenberg, Anders - 2015
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue that this drop is consistent with a social norm prescribing that a man should earn more than his...
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