Household Savings and Marriage Payments

Household Savings and Marriage Payments
Author: S. Anukriti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

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.

Money and Marriage

Money and Marriage
Author: Jan Pahl
Publisher: Palgrave
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1989
Genre: Finance, Personal
ISBN:

This book examines the patterns of money management within marriage, examining the effect of double income and "pooling couples", control of finances and housekeeping. The author has also written "Managers and their Wives", "A Refuge for Battered Women" and "Private Violence and Public Policy".

Terror as a Bargaining Instrument

Terror as a Bargaining Instrument
Author: Francis Bloch
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2000
Genre: Benef Children
ISBN:

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.

Marriage and the Economy

Marriage and the Economy
Author: Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2003-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521891431

Marriage and the Economy explores how marriage influences the monetized economy as well as the household economy. Marriage institutions are to the household economy what business institutions are to the monetized economy, and marital status is clearly related to the household economy. Marriage also influences the economy as conventionally measured via its impact on labor supply, workers' productivity, savings, consumption, and government programs such as welfare programs and social security. The macro-economic analyses presented here are based on the micro-economic foundations of cost/benefit analysis, game theory, and market analysis. Micro-economic analysis of marriage, divorce, and behavior within marriages are investigated by a number of specialists in various areas of economics. Western values and laws have been very successful at transforming the way the world does business, but its success at maintaining individual commitments to family values is less impressive. -- from publisher description.

Saving for Dowry

Saving for Dowry
Author: S. Anukriti
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN:

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.

Savings Fitness

Savings Fitness
Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781422319024

Many people mistakenly believe that Social Security (SS) will pay for all or most of their retire. needs, but the fact is, since its inception, SS has provided little protection. A comfortable retire. usually requires SS, pensions, personal savings & invest. The key tool for making a secure retire. a reality is financial planning. It will help clarify your retire. goals as well as other financial goals you want to ¿buy¿ along the way. It will show you how to manage your money so you can afford today¿s needs yet still fund tomorrow¿s. You¿ll learn how to save your money to make it work for you & how to protect it so it will be there when you need it. Explains how you can take the best advantage of retire. plans at work, & what to do if you¿re on your own. Illustrations.

The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing

The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing
Author: Benjamin Scafidi
Publisher: Broadway Publications
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781931764148

This study provides the first rigorous estimate of the costs to U.S. taxpayer high rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing both at the national and state levels. Based on the methodology, we estimated that U.S. taxpayers were affected at least $112 billion each and every year, or more than $1 trillion each decade.

Handbook of the Economics of the Family

Handbook of the Economics of the Family
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2023-03-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0323899668

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading scholars, with a particular empahsis on the most recent developments in each area. Chapters cover Culture and the family; Mating markets; Household decisions and intra-household distributions; The economics of fertility: a new era; Families, labor markets, and policy; Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility; The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists; An institutional perspective on the economics of the family. An economics approach to changing family arrangements Understanding of inequality and intergenerational mobility Evolution of gender roles within families and across societies

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
Author: Les Parrott
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310346290

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! With this updated edition of their award-winning book, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you launch lifelong love like never before. This is more than a book--it's an experience, especially when you use the his/her workbooks filled with more than 40 fun exercises. Get ready for deeper intimacy with the best friend you'll ever have. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, which has been translated into more than 15 languages, is the most widely used marriage prep tool in the world. Why? Because it will help you . . . Uncover the misbeliefs of marriage Learn to communicate with instant understanding Discover the secret to resolving conflict Master the skills of money management Get your sex life off to a great start A compelling video, featuring real-life couples, is available, and with this updated edition, Les and Leslie unveil the game-changing SYMBIS Assessment. Now you can discover how to leverage your personalities for a love that lasts a lifetime. Make your marriage everything it is meant to be. Save your marriage--before (and after) it starts.