Add to ORKGThis paper considers the impact of family planning on dowry transfers. We construct a marriage market model in which prospective mates anticipate the outcome of in-trahousehold bargaining over fertility. As the price of contraception falls, brides may have to compensate men with higher dowries to attract them into marriage. We test the model using data from a family planning experiment in Bangladesh, which lowered average fertility by 0.65 children. We find that the program increased bride-to-groom dowry transfers by at least eighty percent. The response of the marriage market may dampen the welfare benefits of family planning for women
Over the past two decades the Population Council has amassed a wealth of information on the causes a...
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of mar-riage. Based on a mo...
There is an overwhelming tendency toward assortative matching on income and educa-tion on the marria...
The institution of consanguineous marriage—a marriage contracted between close biological relatives—...
The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relative...
The institution of consanguineous marriage- a marriage contracted between close biological relatives...
Marriages in traditional societies often include a transfer between the involved parties. In some so...
We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce, and dowry...
textabstractThis paper provides evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fer...
India has experienced a much-documented dowry inflation since the 1950s, which has been attributed t...
India has experienced a much-documented inflation in dowries since the 1950s, which has been attribu...
Becker attributes the existence of marital transfers to inflexibility in the division of joint produ...
Preliminary: Please do not cite without authorspermission Existing theoretical and empirical researc...
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parent...
these data. In this paper we show how relatively small changes in the age at marriage can equilibrat...
Over the past two decades the Population Council has amassed a wealth of information on the causes a...
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of mar-riage. Based on a mo...
There is an overwhelming tendency toward assortative matching on income and educa-tion on the marria...
The institution of consanguineous marriage—a marriage contracted between close biological relatives—...
The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relative...
The institution of consanguineous marriage- a marriage contracted between close biological relatives...
Marriages in traditional societies often include a transfer between the involved parties. In some so...
We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce, and dowry...
textabstractThis paper provides evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fer...
India has experienced a much-documented dowry inflation since the 1950s, which has been attributed t...
India has experienced a much-documented inflation in dowries since the 1950s, which has been attribu...
Becker attributes the existence of marital transfers to inflexibility in the division of joint produ...
Preliminary: Please do not cite without authorspermission Existing theoretical and empirical researc...
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parent...
these data. In this paper we show how relatively small changes in the age at marriage can equilibrat...
Over the past two decades the Population Council has amassed a wealth of information on the causes a...
This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of mar-riage. Based on a mo...
There is an overwhelming tendency toward assortative matching on income and educa-tion on the marria...