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Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages

, 2017
We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce, and dowry, a transfer from bride families to grooms at the time of marriage, have evolved through natural shocks.
Chowdhury, Prabal Roy, Chowdhury, Shyamal, Mallick, Debdulal   +2 more
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Application of methods used in the classical matching markets to the Indian marriage market

, 2015
In most societies, the social practice of paying dowry tends to decline and sometimes to disappear. In contrast, a system of marriages negotiated between families continues to exist in India; a marriage squeeze and a real dowry inflation are observed ...
Adli, Rhonya, Samba, Raïssa-Juvette
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Dowry refund sought

, 2016
Society
openaire   +2 more sources

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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Measuring marital choice as an indicator of women's marital agency in rural India. [PDF]

Contracept Reprod Med
Raj A, Gebrehanna H, Johns NE, Rao N, Ghule M, Battala M, Begum S, Clark CJ.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Intersecting inequities: a systematic review of socio-cultural, economic, and legal determinants of violence against women and girls in Asia (ANULA project-WP1 Evidence Synthesis). [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Wijamuni N, Elneil S, Phiri P, Sundarapperuma T, Warushahennadi J, Pathiraja V, Eleje GU, Shi JQ, Rathnayake N, Delanerolle G.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Healthcare career pathways: a case study of strengthening health workforce and empowering marginalised women in Bihar, India. [PDF]

Front Health Serv
Narang J, Ratcliff C, Kanth V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Differential Exposure to Severe Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence and Correlates in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of Immigrant Women. [PDF]

J Interpers Violence
Sabri B, Li J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pattern of suspicious deaths of married females brought for medico-legal autopsy at teaching institute of India. [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care, 2023
Parmar PB, Rathod GB, Bansal P, Maru AM, Pandya B, Bansal AK.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Insight into Dowry Deaths: The Untold Stigma and Torment of a Social Evil. [PDF]

Cureus
Kumar S, Shubhendu K, Kumar S, Kumar A.
europepmc   +1 more source