Why Dowry Payments Declined with Modernization in Europe but Are Rising in India
- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Political Economy
- Vol. 111 (2) , 269-310
- https://doi.org/10.1086/367679
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