Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy - 2017
bride families to grooms at the time of marriage, have evolved through natural shocks. We develop a model of marriage market … 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. …