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Gender bias and the intrahousehold distribution of resources: Evidence from African nuclear households in South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Ntuli, Miracle - 2017

This paper applies recent developments in collective model estimation to elicit the household resource sharing rule, i.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa. We use the 2010/11 South African Income and...

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Bride price and the wellbeing of women

Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan - 2017

Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage … for girls and women because it may: incentivize early marriage and lead to higher fertility; promote the view that … larger bride price payment is associated with earlier marriage or with higher fertility. We also find that larger bride price …

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Gender, Islam, and law

Bowen, John Richard - 2017

This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Key methodological issues include how to focus on real-world views and practices rather than only...

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Marital trajectories and women's wellbeing in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Van de Walle, Dominique; Villar, Paola - 2017

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of voice, resource constraints, and wellbeing as...

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Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India

Das, Shreyasee; Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2022

This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …

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Horizontal inequality, status optimization, and interethnic marriage in a conflict-affected society

McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - 2016

Although several theories of interethnic conflict emphasize ties across group boundaries as conducive to ethnic coexistence, little is known about how such ties are formed. Given their integrative potential, I examine the establishment of cross-ethnic marital ties in a deeply divided society and...

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Do people in income poverty use their income efficiently? A subjective well-being approach

Rojas, Mariano - 2012

A subjective well-being approach is followed to assess the magnitude of inefficiency in the use of income. The information comes from a Mexican survey and an X-inefficiency technique is used. The paper shows that there exists substantial inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels,...

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Social distress and (some) relief: Estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa

Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Goldman, Maya - 2022

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty estimates, simulating incomes in prepandemic household...

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The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa: A gender comparison

Harrichurran, Priyanka; Vermaak, Claire; Muller, Colette - 2021

This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey. Studying leisure time is important since the allocation of time outside the market provides insights into market behaviour and physical and...

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The demographic transformation of post-socialist countries

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2010

looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …, near-universal marriage and childbearing. The other facet of this demographic transformation is nearly unprecedented …

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