Does criminalizing discriminatory cultural practices improve women’s welfare? A simple model of Levirate marriage in Africa
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Keywords
Gender equality; Informal insurance; Legislation; Levirate marriage; Property rights; Widowhood;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- K36 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Family and Personal Law
- K38 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Human Rights Law; Gender Law; Animal Rights Law
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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