Gender Violence and the Price of Virginity: Theory and Evidence of Incomplete Marriage Contracts
Abstract This paper builds and tests a model of marriage as an incomplete contract that arises from asymmetric virginity premiums and examines whether this can lead to social inefficiencies. Contrary to the efficient households hypothesis, women cannot prevent being appropriated by men once they ent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Journal of religion and demography
Year: 2020, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 190-221 |
| Further subjects: | B
economics of the household
B Human Rights B Values B gender-based violence |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (Verlag) |