Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

Trevon Logan and Raj Arunachalam

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2014, vol. 47, issue 2, 81-94

Abstract: This article is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain the rise of dowries in South Asia. Despite these advances, there has been no systematic study of dowry inflation. Using large-sample retrospective survey data from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal, researchers assess the empirical evidence for dowry inflation. They find no evidence that real dowry amounts have systematically increased over time in South Asia.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2014.880642

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