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Supplementary appendix to Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh
This is a companion paper to Ambrus, Field and Torrero (2009). We extend the theoretical analysis of a marriage market with prenuptial agreements to a dynamic setting, in which individuals can reenter the marriage market after failed marriages. We show that the qualitative conclusions of the static analysis remain valid in the dynamic framework. Additionally, we provide examples, both in the st...
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Existing theoretical and empirical research on dowries has difficulty accounting for the large changes in dowry levels observed in many countries over the past few decades. To explain trends in dowry levels in Bangladesh, we draw attention to an institutional feature of marriage contracts previously ignored in the literature: the mehr or traditional Islamic brideprice, which functions as a pren...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Verfassung in Recht und Übersee
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0506-7286
DOI: 10.5771/0506-7286-1987-3-367