How prosperity fuels dowry demand in India
Researchers studied 74,000 marriages that took place in India between 1930 and 1999. …
The study found that economic growth perpetuated and boosted the practice of dowry payments, especially from the 1940s to the 1980s, Mr Weaver told me. “Over this period, more men were getting educated and getting better quality jobs, which led to rise in dowry,” he says.
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