Dowry and wife's welfare: a theoretical and empirical analysis.

Becker attributes the existence of marital transfers to inflexibility in the division of joint product within the marriage. If that were the only reason, we would not have observed the coexistence of dowries and bride-prices. This paper offers an alternative analysis. While Becker's interpretatio...

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Publicado en:Journal of Political Economy Vol. 107; no. 4; pp. 786 - 809
Autores principales: Zhang, Junsen, Chan, William
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press August 1999
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