Chapter 51 Household Formation and Marriage Markets in Rural Areas

Handbook of Development Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 3187-3247

  Fafchamps, Marcel ^a   Quisumbing, Agnes R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

assortative matching; child fostering; divorce; dowry; household size; intrahousehold allocation; marriage market

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049092032     PISSN: 15734471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4471(07)04051-X     Document Type: Review

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