arriage customs in Bangladesh vary by region, complicating national-level efforts to eliminate some of the more harmful practices, such as early marriage and dowry demands, that undermine the status of women. Efforts to reform such a complex and multidimensional institution as marriage must consider economic concerns, social traditions, and social activism. Dowry demands—in addition to exacting...

This paper propounds a contract-theoretic model where dowry acts as a screening device to differentiate grooms of varying qualities. In 'arranged' marriage settings that are characterized by incomplete information in the sense that the true quality of the groom remains unobservable to the bride, and in the presence of observable traits like education that are easier for the better quality groom...

We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on dowry deaths using data from 583 Indian districts for 2002-2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the local mean increases reported dowry deaths by 7.8 percent. Wet shocks have no apparent effect. We examine patterns of other crimes to investigate whether an increase in general unrest during economic downturns expl...

Bride burning and suicide by young married females has been a focus of attention in the midia during the last few years. It has been discussed across forums resulting in loud protest against dowry and cruelty to young married women. That even in the late 20th century women could bo bartered for money and treated ignominously by their husbands and inlaws has created a wide-spread resentment. A f...

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...

with the adoption of article22 of the family supportact 1391, the  ceiling was determined for dowry. with this explanation that dowry  more than 110 is depending on the couple's wealth that the wife must prove her legal rights and less than 110 coinscovered by article 2 implementation of the financial convictions law that amendment to article 18 of the executive regulations, the principle ...

essay on jurisprudence and possible effects of the condition of the dowry *akram sayad **maryam aqai bejestani abstract dowry or mahr one of the financial effects of marriage that couples are required to pay it. high dowry payments and the subsequent imprisonment of many problems facing society and the families of the couple. one of the ways to avoid the dowries of the organization for registra...

the increasing and unlimited cases of burdensome dowries beyond the husband's solvency, leading finally to the enforcement of dowry and divorce, had led some commentators to fix a certain maximum for dowry. the authors, in this article, intend to find a proper theory to resolve this matrimonial problem through reviewing the earlier and later islamic jurisprudents’ opinions. although according t...

In contrast to most dowry oriented societies where payments have declined with modernisation, those in India have undergone signi ̄cant in°ation over the last ̄ve decades. This paper explains the di®erence between these two experiences by focusing on the role played by caste. The theoretical model contrasts caste and non-caste based societies: in the former, there exists an inherited component t...

We examine the consequences of parental control over choice of wives for sons, for parental incentives to educate daughters, in a dualistic transitional economy, where preferences conflict across generations and the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments. Parental control generates persistence of low levels of female literacy, despite economic growth. In steady state equilibrium, t...