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 …

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 …

framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … identifies gender differences in preferences that can explain the observed patterns. …

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We … market. We end the chapter with a discussion of marriage dissolution and other changes in household structure. Fertility … these factors are particularly important in poor countries, especially in a rural setting. We then focus on marriage, which …

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 …

total household marriage payment, increases from 0.1 to 0.3 the predicted probability of the mother using the contraceptive …This study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the use of contraceptives in the household. Using … time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position post marriage as seen by their decision to use the contraceptive …

. Given prevailing gender gaps in height and earnings, positive sorting implies it will be rare for women to be taller than …

. Given prevailing gender gaps in height and earnings, positive sorting implies it will be rare for women to be taller than …