Deng, Jingyuan; Elmallakh, Nelly; Flabbi, Luca; Gatti, … - 2023
This paper posits marriage market returns as a contributing factor to stagnant female labor force participation despite … increasing female education. The paper examines the marriage market returns of female education by exploiting a very direct … measure of returns: bride price, a significant amount of resources transferred by the groom at the time of marriage. The paper …