Bride Price and Female Education

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ashraf, Nava; Bau, Natalie; Nunn, Nathan; Voena, Alessandra
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/704572
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 591-641
• 关键词: marriage; dowry; ECONOMICS; Polygyny; culture; investments; fertility; CHILDREN; beliefs; women

摘要

We document an important consequence of bride price, a payment made by the groom to the bride's family at marriage. Revisiting Indonesia's school construction program, we find that among ethnic groups without the custom, it had no effect on girls' schooling. Among ethnic groups with the custom, it had large positive effects. We show (theoretically and empirically) that this is because a daughter's education, by increasing the amount of money parents receive at marriage, generates an additional incentive for parents to educate their daughters. We replicate these findings in Zambia, a country that had a similar large-scale school construction program.