Showing posts with label bride price. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bride price. Show all posts
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 ...