for girls and women because it may: incentivize early marriage and lead to higher fertility; promote the view that …Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage … husbands have 'purchased' their wives, resulting is worse treatment of wives; and trap women in unhappy marriages due to the …

- increase the probability of abduction marriage only for women from ethnic groups that traditionally exchange a bride price. … wishes to wed. In this paper, we use quantitative and qualitative methods to characterize the practice of abduction marriage … in Ethiopia. We first present the results from in-depth qualitative surveys with community leaders and abducted women in …

of men to women in marriage markets - on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the …

analysis. In this paper we study the unintended consequences of a public information campaign on water quality on the marriage … campaign. We study the impact of the campaign on marriage patterns in rural Bangladesh. Using a difference-in-difference model …, we analyse the age at marriage, bride price agreed at the time of marriage and find that both of them decreased in …

find that poor women and men with low levels of education are the most negatively affected by the tradition of bride price … women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned. …

data from Indonesia covering a period of 22 years, we analyze how ethnic-based kinship systems and marriage customs …

reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various …

-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female … differences in the ease of access to superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. While gender …-specific breadwinning norms may be fading with time, economic realities and marriage market dynamics continue to be drivers of behavior and …

with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In … superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. …

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …