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Dowry, the Oppression of Women and Femicide in Bangladesh

Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2018
The marriage transaction, commonly known as dowry, is a widespread phenomenon in Bangladesh, which has inevitably attracted much attention from social science researchers.
Mohammad Sadikur Rahman
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Empowering Women: Inheritance Rights and Female Education in India [PDF]

This paper examines the impact of property inheritance rights on education of women. Using plausibly exogenous variation created by amendments to female inheritance laws in India, I nd that exposure to improved inheritance rights increased mean female ...
Roy, Sanchari
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Eksistensi Mahar dalam Perkawinan Menurut Abu Hanifah: Sebuah Pendekatan Hukum Melalui Kerangka Metodologi Ushul Fiqh

Asy Syar'iyyah: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah dan Perbankan Islam, 2018
The validity of a marriage in the Islamic Shari’a must fulfill harmony and the conditions that have been set. Beside that, there ia a provision stipulated by Allah Swt.
Winarno Winarno
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An uncertain future: youth frustration and the Arab Spring [PDF]

, 2013
This repository item contains a single issue of The Pardee Papers, a series papers that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Mulderig, M. Chloe
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ZAKAZ OBCIĄŻANIA NIERUCHOMOŚCI POSAGOWYCH W RZYMSKIM PRAWIE KLASYCZNYM

Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017
Prohibition of Creation of Real Security over a Dowry in Classical Roman Law Summary Lex Iulia de fundo dotali, as enacted in 18 BC, prohibited alienation of immovable property constituting a dowry.
Agnieszka Stępkowska
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On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives [PDF]

Dowries have been modeled as pre-mortem bequests to daughters or as groom-prices paid to in-laws. These two classes of models yield mutually exclusive predictions, but empirical tests of these predictions have been mixed.
Raj Arunachalam, Trevon D. Logan
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The Powerful

, 2004
History is written by the powerful. It is true that since the 1960s and the beginnings of the democratization of history, less powerful minorities have taken up the pen and more profusely expressed their views of history, but to a great extent, white ...
Gale, Molly Kay
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Dowry in Bangladesh: A Search from an International Perspective for an Effective Legal Approach to Mitigate Women\u27s Experiences [PDF]

, 2014
For some 40 years, Bangladesh has fought a losing battle against the existence of dowries and their associated abuse with no indication of even a minimal impact as dowry demands inflate and violence increases.
Begum, Afroza
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Symbolika vena vo vybraných rímskych právnych a literárnych prameňov

Právněhistorické studie
The institute of dos (dowry) represented a significant legal and socio-cultural phenomenon in ancient societies, particularly in Greek and Roman legal traditions.
Matej Mlkvý
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‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India [PDF]

We model the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from having married ...
Dasgupta, Indraneel, Maitra, Pushkar, Mukherjee, Diganta   +2 more
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