Linguère Mously Mbaye|Natascha Wagner
Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
African Development Bank Group|Erasmus University Rotterdam
paper provides evidence relationship bride price payments fertility decisions senegal higher bride price payments reduce fertility pressure women results robust confounding socioeconomic contextual factors fertilityreducing impact greater women economically dependent husbands polygamous households arranged marriages lower bride price increases fertility pressure monogamous households nonarranged marriages bride price affect fertility bride price payments less power economically independent women empowerment give leeway girls traditional societies