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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Political Economy Vol. 107; no. 4; pp. 786 - 809 |
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University of Chicago Press
August 1999
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