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Author | : S. Anukriti |
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Release | : 2022 |
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The ancient custom of dowry, i.e., bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary societies. Using data from 1986-2007, this paper examines whether dowry impacts intertemporal resource allocation and other household decisions in rural India. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance. The higher savings are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This implies that people are farsighted; they work and save more today with payoff in the distant future.
Author | : S. Anukriti |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2018 |
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This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights this alternative motive for savings in dowry-paying societies. However, we find no impacts of dowry expectations on son-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls.
Author | : Edmond About |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1880 |
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Author | : Edmond About |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Francis Bloch |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Benef Children |
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Some aspects of violent behavior are linked to economic incentives. In India, domestic violence is used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a wife's family after the marriage has taken place.
Author | : Richard P. Saller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780521599788 |
This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.
Author | : Philip Gilbert Hamerton |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1896 |
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Author | : Srimati Basu |
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Dowry |
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The essays in this book examine the sociological, legal, cultural and economic implications of dowry. The connection between dowry or bridewealth norms and the status of women, inheritance and its impact on women's empowerment are discussed from the multiple perspectives adopted by different feminist scholars. Feminist interventions have dealt with slippery definitions, concepts in legal formulations and theoretical questions regarding the volition and agency of women in a patriarchal structure. The essays examine the activist position vis-Ã -vis dowry and inheritance: should dowry be boycotted in toto, or only its excesses? Is dowry a form of inheritance? Legal intervention is often seen as the most concrete means to address issues of equity, but the Dowry Prohibition Act of 1984 leaves room for manoeuvre: dowry as a condition of marriage is punishable, but voluntary gifts are excluded from the ambit of the law. More recently, legislative intervention has sought to grant equal inheritance rights to women. Will these developments make for greater gender equity? This book brings together intellectually stimulating analysis and radical activism, in a cogent and comprehensive assessment of an issue and a practice that has preoccupied Indian feminists for the past three decades.
Author | : Veena Talwar Oldenburg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195150716 |
Oldenburg argues that dowry murder is not about dowry per se nor is it rooted in an Indian culture or caste system that encourages violence against women. Rather, dowry murder can be traced directly to the influences of the British colonial era.
Author | : Philip Gilbert Hamerton |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1889 |
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