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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Why Dowries?

  • Maristella Botticini
  • Aloysius Siow
American Economic Review
vol. 93, no. 4, September 2003
(pp. 1385–1398)
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Citation

Botticini, Maristella, and Aloysius Siow. 2003. "Why Dowries?" American Economic Review, 93 (4): 1385–1398. DOI: 10.1257/000282803769206368

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