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Policy research working paper 9453
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The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary societies. This paper examines whether dowry impacted household decision making and resource allocation in rural India during 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, the paper finds that the prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance. The higher savings are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This implies that people are farsighted; they work and save more today with payoff in the distant future
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Anukriti, S Saving for Dowry: Evidence from Rural India Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020
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Englisch
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Graue Literatur
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-9453
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