Title: Marriage Market and an Effect on Girls' School Dropout in Bangladesh
Abstract: This study pursues to investigate how cultural features of marriage market affect as barrier for girls' schooling attainment in Bangladesh. As the existences of female hyperhamy, educated women prefer equal or more higher educated grooms than them in marriage- matching pattern, however qualified grooms require higher amount of dowry from brides' family in marriage market. Consequently, highly educated girls' impose higher amount of dowry payment to their marry. However, dowry is an economic transfer from brides' family to grooms' family in Bangladesh. Therefore to find out the underlying factors of girls' school dropout behavior this study has been created a conceptual framework on the mechanism of hypergamy and dowry to illustrate how girls' schooling continuations increase the amount of dowry in marriage market. Study considered parents' dowry payment and hypergamic intention to daughters' marry since girls' marriage time and schooling decision controlled by parents in general. Analyses in logistic regression model in this study confirm that parent's dowry payment expectation and their hypergamic intention both are negatively predect girls school dropout outcome in Bangladesh.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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