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Saving for Dowry: Evidence from Rural India

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dc.contributor.authorAnukriti, S.
dc.contributor.authorKwon, Sungoh
dc.contributor.authorPrakash, Nishith
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-15T17:31:29Z
dc.date.available2022-03-15T17:31:29Z
dc.date.issued2022-01
dc.description.abstractThe ancient custom of dowry, i.e., bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary societies. Using data from 1986–2007, this paper examines whether dowry impacts intertemporal resource allocation and other household decisions in rural India. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find 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.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Development Economics
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/37133
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37133
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectDOWRY
dc.subjectMARRIAGE PAYMENT
dc.subjectINDIA
dc.subjectSAVING
dc.subjectLABOR SUPPLY
dc.titleSaving for Dowryen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from Rural Indiaen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2025-01-01
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-06T11:17:29.258540Z
okr.doctypeJournal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102750
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.countryIndia
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.topicRural Development::Rural Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group
okr.volume154
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