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"Watta Satta": Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan

The American economic review, 2010-09, Vol.100 (4), p.1804-1825 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2010 American Economic Association ;World Bank ;Copyright American Economic Association Sep 2010 ;ISSN: 0002-8282 ;EISSN: 1944-7981 ;DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.4.1804 ;CODEN: AENRAA

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Title:
"Watta Satta": Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan
Author: Jacoby, Hanan G. ; Mansuri, Ghazala
Subjects: Bias ; Brothers ; Coefficients ; Customs ; Daughters ; Domestic Abuse J120 ; Domestic violence ; Dowries ; Economic Anthropology ; Economic Development: Human Resources ; Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses ; Economic Sociology ; Economics of Gender ; Estrangement ; Family relations ; Family Structure ; Honor killings ; Human Development ; Husbands ; Income Distribution ; Marital Dissolution ; Marriage ; Mental health ; Migration O150 ; Non-labor Discrimination J160 ; Pakistan ; Parents ; Parents & parenting ; Rural areas ; Shorter Papers ; Social and Economic Stratification Z130 ; Social life & customs ; Social policy ; Sons ; Studies ; Threat ; Transportation O180 ; Violence against women ; Welfare ; Women
Is Part Of: The American economic review, 2010-09, Vol.100 (4), p.1804-1825
Description: Can marriage institutions limit marital inefficiency? We study the pervasive custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride exchange between families coupled with a mutual threat of retaliation. Watta satta can be seen as a mechanism for coordinating the actions of two sets of parents, each wishing to restrain their son-in-law. We find that marital discord, as measured by estrangement, domestic abuse, and wife's mental health, is indeed significantly lower in watta satta versus "conventional" marriage, but only after accounting for selection bias. These benefits cannot be explained by endogamy, a marriage pattern associated with watta satta.
Publisher: Nashville: American Economic Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0002-8282
EISSN: 1944-7981
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.4.1804
CODEN: AENRAA
Source: Open Knowledge Repository

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"Watta Satta": Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan

Copyright © 2010 American Economic Association ;World Bank ;Copyright American Economic Association Sep 2010 ;ISSN: 0002-8282 ;EISSN: 1944-7981 ;DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.4.1804 ;CODEN: AENRAA

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