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Natural shocks and marriage markets: Fluctuations in mehr and dowry in Muslim marriages
We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce, and dowry, a transfer from the bride’s family to the groom at the time of marriage, have fluctuated in Bangladesh due to natural shocks. We develop a model of the marriage market in which dowry acts as a groom...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Published by Elsevier B.V.
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7319937/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834072 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103510 |