Why Dowry Payments Declined with Modernization in Europe but Are Rising in India

By Siwan Anderson. Journal of Political Economy, 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Women's Inheritance Rights and Intergenerational Transmission of Resources in India (2013, unknown): “On the one hand, legislation to prohibit dowry in India is widely judged to have been ineffective in attaining its goal to reduce the importance of such transfers and coincides with a time period where such transfers have become more relevant (Anderson 2003).”
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India (2010, background): “Other trends that may alter the incentive to sex select include dowry inflation (Anderson 2003) and the recent appearance of state programmes providing financial incentives to families with girls (Sinha and Yoong 2009).”
Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments (2020, background): “…(1967) and Appendix table A1) and there exists wide evidence that the practice has persisted to the present day, although empirical evidence is relatively scarce.5 A wider body of literature has examined the causes and consequence of dowry in India (Anderson, 2003; Sautmann, 2017; Edlund, 2006).”
Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings (2005, background): “Finally, Anderson (2003) analyzes the importance of caste as a determinant of dowry payments.”
Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining (2003, background): “…bargaining position are sex ratios at the relevant marriage ages, laws governing divorce, and other environmental factors that may shift threat points within marriage (Rao and Greene, 1993; Lundberg, Pollak, and Wales, 1997; Ward-Batts, 2001; Chiappori, Fortin, and Lacroix, 2002; Anderson, 2003).”
What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India? (2015, background): “Marriage is of great importance in India, especially to women and their parents (Anderson 2003), as women typically leave their parental household and migrate to live with their husband’s family (see Rosenzweig and Stark 1989; Banerjee et al. 2013).”
Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India (2013, background): “In contrast, to explain the phenomenon of dowry inflation, Anderson (2003) constructs a model where women have a strong preference for marrying in an upper caste (and low caste women are not sensitive to income among high caste men).”
Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India (2015, background): “mortem bequest to daughters in South Asia (Anderson, 2004; Goody, 1973). Using the REDS 99 dataset, I find that in eligible households, women who were past primary school-going age at the time of reform but not yet old enough to be married received larger mean dowry payments relative to the control ”