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Medico-legal autopsy study of alleged dowry deaths - a two year cross-setional study
, 2020 Priyanka Patil A +2 more
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The economics of consanguineous marriages [PDF]
The institution of consanguineous marriage-a marriage contracted between close biological relatives-has been a basic building block of many societies in different parts of the world. This paper argues that the practice of consanguinity is closely related
Do, Quy-Toan +2 more
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Noblewomen’s Dowries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Sixteenth – Seventeenth Centuries
, 2013 Natallia Sliž
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Dowry System as a Social Evil: A Study of India [PDF]
, 2022 Huma Akhtar +13 more
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India's Missing Women: Disentangling Cultural, Political and Economic Variables [PDF]
The severe anti-female bias in natality and child mortality that gives rise to India's missing women has been widely documented and various explanations ranging from agricultural labor demand to dowries have been offered in the literature.
Martin Ranger, Rubiana Chamarbagwala
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Dowry deaths: Response to weather variability in India
, 2014 Sheetal Sekhri, Adam Storeygard
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Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently?: A review of literature and new evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda [PDF]
This background paper attempts to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact of shocks on assets through a literature review on shocks and gendered asset dynamics and an analysis of new panel data (2007 and 2009) from Uganda and ...
Behrman, Julia A. +2 more
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Traditional Institutions in Modern Times: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate
, 2023 Natalie Bau +3 more
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Partner Search and Demographics: The Marriage Squeeze in India [PDF]
If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a sur- plus of women in the marriage market. This paper introduces search frictions into a matching model with transferable utility and age-dependent match payos to study if this so ...
Anja Sautmann
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