Does criminalizing discriminatory cultural practices improve women's welfare? A simple model of levirate marriage in Africa

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2021.109728MaRDI QIDQ2659962zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuya Kudo

Publication date 29 March 2021

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109728

zbMATH Keywords

gender equalityinformal insurancelegislationlevirate marriageproperty rightswidowhood

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10)

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• Choosing the Carrot or the Stick? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations

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