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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
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/10011420043
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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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Human capital effects of marriage payments
Anderson, Siwan - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
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/10011404896
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388333
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Is there a male breadwinner norm? : the hazards of inferring preferences from marriage market outcomes
Binder, Ariel J.; Lam, David - 2018
Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that fewer wives are taller than their husbands than would occur with random matching. The large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891672
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Marriage payments and bargaining power of women in rural Bangladesh
Mansoor, Nazia - 2011
time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position post marriage as seen by their decision to use the contraceptive … total household marriage payment, increases from 0.1 to 0.3 the predicted probability of the mother using the contraceptive … pill increases by 8 percentage points. -- marriage market ; marriage payments ; female bargaining power ; contraceptive use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009410491
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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes
Binder, Ariel - 2018
Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that fewer wives are taller than their husbands than would occur with random matching. The large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912774
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Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households : Evidence from Sweden
Hederos Eriksson, Karin - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011176