India has experienced a much-documented dowry inflation since the 1950s, which has been attributed to a spurt in …, dowry payments and a masculine sex ratio.The result holds for parameters consistent with marriage market indicators in India. …

parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …

parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has …

parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …

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

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 …

care for older in-laws could be related to the presence of brideprice or dowry transfers (or their in-kind equivalents) and …