Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Showing posts with label dowry. Show all posts

Showing posts with label dowry. Show all posts

Saturday, May 27, 2023

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

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...

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Mixed marriage bonus in Iraq

Iraq: $2, 000 for Shiite-Sunni Couples Who Marry "Talib and his wife are among more than 1,700 newlywed couples who have accepted cash ...

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Marriage market in Saudi Arabia: age of marriage

Many markets unravel , that is, transactions tend to become earlier and earlier. One example is marriage markets, in which betrothals can so...

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Marriage market in Iran

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

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

Friday, December 19, 2008

Marriage market: Middle East

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

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