“Gender Shock†and Household Labor Allocation: Dowry and Labor Migration in Pakistan

Ahmed Raza Cheema and Ian Coxhead
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Ahmed Raza Cheema: University of Sargodha

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Abstract: Dowry is a cultural practice, ubiquitous in South Asia, in which the bride’s family provides gifts and payments to the groom’s family at the time of marriage. Using data from Pakistan we find that the presence in a household of unmarried girls and young women is a very strong predictor of propensity to receive remittances from family members working elsewhere. Boys have no such effect. This is consistent with household labor reallocation in response to the need to generate savings for dowry expenses. The strength of the gender shock is modified in predictable ways by variation over wealth, location and migrant destinations.

JEL-codes: D14 J12 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06
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