'Til Dowry Do Us Part: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families
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Keywords
Domestic violence; Dowry; Non-cooperative bargaining; India; Marital surplus; Women's empowerment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GTH-2021-05-17 (Game Theory)
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