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SUMMARY:Seminar:"Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages" by Prof Shyamal Chowdhury\,  University of Sydney
DESCRIPTION:Prof Shyamal Chowdhury\, University of Sydney\, is presenting a seminar on "Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages"\n\nDate : January 5\, 2018\nTime: 11:30 am\nVenue: Seminar Room 1\, IGIDR.\n\nAll are invited.\n\n \n\nTitle: Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages\nby Shyamal Chowdhury\, Debdulal Mallick\, Prabal Roy Chowdhury\n(March 2017)\n\nAbstract:\nWe examine how mehr\, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce\, and dowry\, a transfer from bride families to grooms at the time of marriage\, have evolved through natural shocks. We develop a model of marriage market in which dowry acts as a groom price\, whereas mehr serves to deter inefficient divorces. Our comparative statics results show that the value of mehr is increasing (decreasing) in shocks that raise (lower) income while the effect of such shocks on dowry is ambiguous; even if dowry increases (decreases)\, the magnitude will be smaller than the corresponding increase (decrease) in mehr. We then exploit several natural experiments in Bangladesh\, that include the Green Revolution around the 1960s\, the Independence War in 1971 and the famine of 1974\, to explain fluctuations in the value of mehr and dowry observed in Muslim marriages. Using two household survey datasets in Bangladesh\, we find support for our theoretical predictions. To rule out alternative explanations\, in particular the effect of legal changes\, we exploit another natural experiment from the Indian state of West Bengal that experienced the same natural shocks\, but not any of the legal shocks affecting Bangladesh. These results demonstrate that natural shocks may influence the evolution of social institutions  
URL:http://www.igidr.ac.in/seminars/seminarnatural-shocks-marriage-markets-evolution-mehr-dowry-muslim-marriages-prof-shyamal-chowdhury-university-sydney/
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