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Dowry and Wife's Welfare : A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Zhang, Junsen; Chan, William M. - 1999

Becker attributes the existence of marital transfers to inflexibility in the division of joint product within the marriage. If that were the only reason, we would not have observed the coexistence of dowries and bride-prices. This paper offers an alternative analysis. While Becker's...

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Does Divorce Law Matter?

Fella, Giulio; Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2021

In this paper we derive an explicit model of negotiations between spouses when utility is (partially) transferable only in case of separation. We show that inefficient separation may occur in equilibrium even under consensual divorce law. This provides theoretical support for the view that...

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Vulnerability to Weather Disasters : The Choice of Coping Strategies in Rural Uganda

Helgeson, Jennifer - 2013

may well be that livestock are held as a form of liquid savings to, among other things, help bounce back from a weather … tend to be employed in the event of a weather disaster, second, given that multiple strategies can be chosen, in what … far the most frequently reported choice would be to sell livestock. This is rather striking, since asset-based theories …

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Vulnerability to Weather Disasters : The Choice of Coping Strategies in Rural Uganda

Helgeson, Jennifer - 2012

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Large demographic shocks and small changes in the marriage market

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Vogel, Carl - 2009

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine affected cohorts in rural areas of Sichuan and Anhui. The reduced form estimates incorporate general equilibrium and heterogeneous treatment effects, two important components of...

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Marriage payments and bargaining power of women in rural Bangladesh

Mansoor, Nazia - 2011

This study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the use of contraceptives in the household. Using data from rural Bangladesh in 1998-1999 it investigates whether women in a relatively strong bargaining position at the time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position...

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Early effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on children in rural Bangladesh

Makino, Momoe; Shonchoy, Abu; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2021

Using data collected through a telephone-based survey in rural Bangladesh during the height of the pandemic, we present evidence on the effects of COVID-19-led lockdown and school closures on children, focusing on three child-related outcomes: time use of children during the school closure,...

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Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market

Brandt, Loren - 2009

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Weather information for smallholders : evidence from a pilot field experiment in Benin

Yegbemey, Rosaine Nérice; Bensch, Gunther; Vance, Colin - 2021

Weather conditions are an important determinant of agricultural factor input, particularly labor allocation. The … availability of weather forecasts can therefore lead to efficiency gains in the form of cost decreases and productivity increases …. We test the practical feasibility, the uptake, and the effect of providing basic weather forecasts in the rainy season on …

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Widowhood and consumption of private assignable goods : the role of socio-economic status, rainfall shocks and historical institutions

Bandyopadhyay, Sutirtha; Maity, Bipasha - 2022

We study how weather shocks interact with cultural norms biased against women to affect female poverty within the …

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