Groom price-female human capital: Some empirical evidence

Amarendra Sharma () and Paul Frijters ()

The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2009, vol. 38, issue 2, pages 270-279

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of female human capital endowment on the groom price or dowry by using a newly available data set that was created by surveying the middle-class residents of Patna, Bihar. The estimates based on the OLS and 2SLS suggest the existence of positive association between the two variables for the sample under study. The result can be viewed as a positive; albeit, a small step towards settling the issue as to whether or not dowry is an obstacle to female human capital formation.

Keywords: Dowry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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