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The consequences of male migration, old-age support and age structure for women's marital choices in rural Bangladesh.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The consequences of male migration, old-age support and age structure for women's marital choices in rural Bangladesh./
Author:	Protik, Ali Ehsan.
Description:	83 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Andrew Foster.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3272037
ISBN:	9780549121381

The consequences of male migration, old-age support and age structure for women's marital choices in rural Bangladesh.
Protik, Ali Ehsan.

The consequences of male migration, old-age support and age structure for women's marital choices in rural Bangladesh. - 83 p.

Adviser: Andrew Foster.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2007.

Chapter 1 examines the effect of brother's migration on the marriage patterns of sisters in a rural area of Bangladesh. It has been proposed that when sons are migrants, especially when accompanied by their spouses, parents become more willing to marry their daughters nearby to secure care support for their old-age. Such willingness arises because of a missing market for care. We use 20 years of marriage and migration records from 1974 to 1996, supplemented by a 1974 baseline census, from the Demographic Surveillance System in Matlab, Bangladesh. We compare women who face similar marriage prospects but differ by their brother's migration status. Consistent with the theoretical predictions of a general equilibrium model, we find strong evidence that women with migrant brothers are more likely to marry someone from the same village and are also more likely to marry someone with lower human capital. Chapter 2 examines the effect of brother's migration on dowries paid by women with migrant brothers. Extending the general equilibrium model in chapter 1 we show that women with a higher willingness to marry will pay higher dowries in equilibrium for grooms in closer proximity. Supplementing our data from the previous chapter with dowry information from the Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey, we find that women who are more willing to marry nearby and actually do marry someone nearby pay 133% more dowries. Chapter 3 shows how relatively small changes in the age at marriage can equilibrate the marriage market despite relatively large differences in the supply of men and women of marriageable age. A simple dynamic demographic model is developed that provides prediction about the relationship between relative cohort size and age at marriage that differs markedly from that of the static model that has been emphasized in the previous literature. We illustrate this point empirically using micro-level data from a rural area of Bangladesh which experienced a large increase in age at marriage for women (about 3 years) over the period from 1975 to 1996 at the same time that the relative supply of women in the marriage market was decreasing.

ISBN: 9780549121381Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

The consequences of male migration, old-age support and age structure for women's marital choices in rural Bangladesh.
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