R Arunachalam… - The American Economic Review, 2008 - JSTOR
In a seminal paper, Lena Edlund and Evelyn Korn (2002) introduce a puzzling stylized fact?
that prostitution is" low-skilled, labor intensive, female, and well paid"? and offer a
provocative explanation: sex workers draw a compensating differential due to the ...
R Arunachalam… - 2006 - nber.org
Dowries have been modeled as pre-mortem bequests to daughters or as groom-prices paid
to in-laws. These two classes of models yield mutually exclusive predictions, but empirical
tests of these predictions have been mixed. We argue that the heterogeneity of findings ...
R Arunachalam, T Logan - 2008 - nber.org
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry
inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry
inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers ...
R Arunachalam… - University of California, …, 2006 - wwwdocs.fce.unsw.edu.au
Abstract This paper considers the impact of family planning on dowry transfers. We construct
a model of the marriage market in which prospective mates anticipate the outcome of
intrahousehold bargaining over fertility. We show that as the price of contraception falls, ...
[CITATION] Prostitutes and Brides?
M Shah… - American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2008
[CITATION] A Readers' Guide to Smith Book One
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R Arunachalam - 2005 - escholarship.org
... Use commas. Citation. Arunachalam, Raj. (2005). Dowries in Comparative Historical Perspective.
UC Berkeley: Department of Economics, UCB. ... Title: Dowries in Comparative Historical Perspective.
Author: Arunachalam, Raj, UC Berkeley. Publication Date: 01-26-2005. Series: ...
R Arunachalam… - Ann Arbor, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to
physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial
sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty ...
[CITATION] Do Men Pay for Fertility? Marriage Market Effects of a Family Planning Experiment in Bangladesh
R Arunachalam… - 2006
R Arunachalam… - 2011 - socsci.uci.edu
Abstract As sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence rises, individuals substitute away
from risky sex; this behavioral response renders STI epidemics self-limiting. In the
commercial sex sector, however, prostitutes draw a premium for engaging in unprotected ...
R Arunachalam - 2007 - books.google.com
Chapter 1 considers the impact of family planning on dowry transfers. We construct a model
of the marriage market in which prospective mates anticipate the outcome of intrahousehold
bargaining over fertility. We show that as the price of contraception falls, brides must ...
S Ansolabehere, R Arunachalam, NA Bapat… - Cambridge Univ Press
The Political Science Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces it
awards for basic research support and dis-sertation improvement grants for fiscal year 2009.
The program funded 56 new projects and 34 doctoral dissertation improvement proposals. ...
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