Online Appendix: Property Rights Over Marital Transfers
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This online appendix accompanies our paper “Property Rights Over Marital Transfers”.
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Property Rights over Marital Transfers
In developing countries, the extent to which women possess property rights is shaped in large part by transfers received at the time of marriage. Focusing on dowry, we develop a simple model of the marriage market with intrahousehold bargaining to understand the incentives for brides’ parents to allocate the rights over the dowry between their daughter and her groom. In doing so, we clarify and...
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