The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parents exert financial and social powers to influence spouse characteristics and ensure optimal marriages. While arranging marriages is a major focus of parental investment, marriage decisions are also a source of conflict between parents and daughters in which parents often have more power. The process of market integration may alter parental investment strategies, however, increasing children's bargaining power and reducing parents' influence over children's marriage decisions. We use data from a market integrating region of Bangladesh to (a) describe temporal changes in marriage types, (b) identify which women enter arranged marriages and (c) determine how market integration affects patterns o

SUBMITTER: Schaffnit SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10426007 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature