Showing posts with label bride price. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bride price. Show all posts
Thursday, October 3, 2024

A bride- price auction: “the most expensive bride in South Sudan”

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  The Guardian has the story of a bride-price auction for a child bride in South Sudan: A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriag...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

An upside to dowries, by Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Corinne Low & Alessandra Voena

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  Dowries (like bride prices*) are often criticized, but may have indirect effects that aren't so easy to see, as in this recent NBER pa...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Bride price in China

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  The NY Times has the story: In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up . China’s one-child policy has led to too few wome...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Bride price in rural China

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The Washington Post has a story about efforts to cap rising bride prices in one Chinese rural town: The ‘bride price’ in China keeps risi...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Bride price and the education of brides

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Here's a new paper that casts bride price in a somewhat different light, with data from Indonesia and Zambia suggesting that girls who ...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Marriage markets in China

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Brook Larmer writes in the NY Times about the changing marriage market:  The Price of Marriage in China  (I like the URL better than the hea...
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Marriage among the Tinkers of Thrace

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"The NY Times reports on the evolution of the market for brides among Bulgarian Roma: Subtle Shift at the Gypsy Bride Market " S...
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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Repugnant transactions concerning brides

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From the sale of child brides in Saudi Arabia to the difficulty of enforcing the laws against Suttee (self-immolation on the husband's f...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Marriage market in Iran

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The marriage market in Iran is not proceeding as planned, the Guardian reports: Premarital sex on rise as Iranians delay marriage, survey fi...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Marriage market: dowries

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The previous post got me thinking about dowries and their role in marriage markets: the paper I like best is " Why Dowries?" Ameri...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

Marriage market: Middle East

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Head of Palestinian clan offers Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist a bride "The head of a large West Bank family wants to reward the Iraqi ...