NDLI: On the heterogeneity of dowry motives

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Author	Arunachalam, Raj Logan, Trevon D.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Dowries have been modeled as pre-mortem bequests to daughters or as groom-prices paid to in-laws. These two classes of models yield mutually exclusive predictions, but empirical tests of these predictions have been mixed. We draw from historical evidence that suggests a bifurcated marriage market, in which some households use dowries as a bequest and others use dowries as a price. The competing theories of dowry allow us to structure an exogenous switching regression that places households in the price or bequest regime. The empirical strategy allows for multiple checks on the validity of regime assignment. Using retrospective marriage data from rural Bangladesh, we find evidence of heterogeneity in dowry motives; that bequest dowries have declined in prevalence and amount over time; and that bequest households are better off compared to price households on a variety of welfare measures.
Starting Page	135
Ending Page	166
Page Count	32
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09331433
Journal	Journal of Population Economics
Volume Number	29
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14321475
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2015-02-10
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Dowries Marriage transfers Switching models Population Economics Labor Economics Demography Social Policy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography Economics and Econometrics

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