Bride price and female education
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We document an important consequence of bride price, a payment made by the groom to the bride’s family at marriage. Revisiting Indonesia’s school construction program, we find that among ethnic groups without the custom, it had no effect on girls’ schooling. Among ethnic groups with the custom, it had large positive effects. We show (theoretically and empirically) that this is because a daughter’s education, by increasing the amount of money parents receive at marriage, generates an additional incentive for parents to educate their daughters. We replicate these findings in Zambia, a country that had a similar large-scale school construction program.
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Bride wealth generates additional incentives for parents to educate their daughters.
“We also find evidence that educated girls receive higher bride wealth payments at marriage, which could support the idea that bride wealth generates additional incentives for parents to educate their daughters, as found in Iran and Zambia by Ashraf et al. (2020).”
From Abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC) is an emerging but costly parental investment strategy in rural Ethiopia. (2023) · cites this paper as Ashraf et al., 2020
More highly educated brides may be in greater demand as marriage partners and/or marrying into wealthier families better able to afford larger bride wealth payments.
“This could indicate that more highly educated brides are in greater demand as marriage partners (Ashraf et al., 2020), and/or they are marrying into wealthier families who are better able to afford larger bride wealth payments (Gibson and Mace, 2007).”
From Abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC) is an emerging but costly parental investment strategy in rural Ethiopia. (2023) · cites this paper as Ashraf et al., 2020
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Chort, I., Hotte, R., & Marazyan, K. (2022) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.4114873 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
- Authors
- Ashraf, N., Bau, N., Nunn, N., & Voena, A.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CA)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Political Economy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2020-02-01
- Volume
- 128
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 591-641
- ISSN
- 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-534X
- OpenAlex
- W2999202357
- Cited by
- 271
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 39 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 46.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Political Economy (publishedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Marriage and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Keywords
- bride price, women's education, marriage payments, parental incentives, ethnic groups, Indonesia, Zambia, gender inequality in education
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