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 …-enter the marriage market as older brides, (as is the case in areas undergoing dowry inflation), the marriage squeeze argument …

daughters, in a dualistic transitional economy, where preferences conflict across generations and the marriage market exhibits … competitive dowry payments. Parental control generates persistence of low levels of female literacy, despite economic growth. In …-subsidy interventions all fail to raise female literacy. Universal female literacy would result, despite dowry, if grooms themselves chose …

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 …

gender wage gap and the improvement in household production technology on the agents’ marital decisions. … cohabiting. Furthermore, cohabiting couples differ from married ones. They tend to share household tasks and market works more …-sectional differences between cohabiting and married couples. To this end, we build a two-period model of marriage and cohabitation with …

diminishes with age. I examine several hypotheses for this phenomenon, among which the division of labor within the household is …' bargaining power, as the estimated bargaining power from a model including home production, shows almost no gender imbalance …

particular. The issues addressed here include: the confusion between female headship analysis and gender analysis of poverty; the … existence of alternative definitions of household headship; and the existence of different analytical purposes of using the … concept of household headship and the need for using appropriate headship definitions for each purpose …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts … developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing …

institutional frameworks can shape fairly persistent gender identity prescriptions that influence house-hold economic decisions for … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …

institutional frameworks can shape fairly persistent gender identity prescriptions that influence household economic decisions for … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …

institutional frameworks can shape fairly persistent gender identity prescriptions that influence house-hold economic decisions for … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …