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...

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...

Dowry is an obligatory gift from a prospective husband to wife as the sincerity of create sense love for his or that required by wife, both in form goods and services. This research designed using empirical juridical approach, meaning main data can be obtained through field observations, but there also library adjust theoretical framework facts. Legal standing value dowry (dowry) sadompo uma gi...

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...

rectal feeding?immediate feeding in gastric ulcer and treatment by lactic acid ferments are eminently reasonable. He states that the results of the injection of magnesium sulphate in cases of tetanus have been encouraging. Personally we have not tried it, but have heard no encouraging report from those who have. We confidently advise medical men in India to read this work, especially those who ...