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Brown, Philip H. – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
This paper analyzes the relationship between a woman's intrahousehold bargaining position and her welfare within marriage using household data from rural China. Simultaneity problems are overcome by using dowry to proxy for bargaining position. Omitted variable bias is addressed by using grain shocks in the year preceding marriage as an instrument…
Descriptors: Marriage, Foreign Countries, Homemakers, Family Life