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Chapter 51 Household Formation and Marriage Markets in Rural Areas
Fafchamps, Marcel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3187-3247). 2007
This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We begin by discussing the many social and economic factors that incite individuals to live together in households. Many of these factors are particularly important in poor...
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Female labor force participation and dowries in Pakistan
Makino, Momoe - 2018
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Household savings and marriage payments : evidence from dowry in India
Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2018
gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases … this alternative motive for savings in dowry-paying societies. However, we find no impacts of dowry expectations on son …
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Weather shocks, age of marriage and the direction of marriage payments
Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016
payments in each region (bride price in Africa and dowry in India). Our results highlight the importance of understanding the …
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Marriage markets and the rise of dowry in India
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Weaver, Jeffrey - 2023
Dowry payments are common in many marriage markets. This paper uses data on over 74,000 marriages in rural India over … the last century to explain why the institution of dowry emerges and how it evolves over time. We find that the proportion … of Indian marriages including dowry payments doubled between 1930 and 1975, and the average real value of payments …
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Do improved property rights decrease violence against women in India?
Amaral, Sofia - 2017 - This Version: July 2017
This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women ( including female suicides) fell. This fall is due to...
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Men's premarital migration and marriage payments : evidence from Indonesia
Champeaux, Hugues; Gautrain, Elsa; Marazyan, Karine - 2024
Bride price customs are widespread in many developing countries. While the economic literature has widely investigated the implications of such transfers on women's welfare, little is known about their consequences on men's premarital behavior. In this paper, we exploit a quasi-natural...
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Young women in cities
Koh, Yumi; Li, Jing; Wu, Yifan; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Hanzhe - 2023
Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish...
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Astrology and matrimony : social reinforcement of religious beliefs on marriage matching in Vietnam
Ciscato, Edoardo; Do, Quoc-Anh; Nguyen, Kieu-Trang - 2024
This paper demonstrates the prevalence, pervasiveness, persistence, and resilience of a system of non-Big God religious beliefs, in absence of religious organizations and moralizing prescriptions, thanks to a self-fulfilling mechanism based on social insurance. We focus on the Vietnamese’s...
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Adjusting Household Structure : School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2004
Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity...
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