Can Bride Price “Purchase” Happiness? Evidence From China
Published online on October 28, 2025
Abstract
Journal of Family Issues, Volume 47, Issue 5, Page 575-616, May 2026.
The persistent issue of rising marriage payments in emerging market countries has recently garnered attention. Using the China Labor Dynamics Survey (CLDS), we discovered that bride prices have an inverted U-shaped nonlinear impact on individual ...
The persistent issue of rising marriage payments in emerging market countries has recently garnered attention. Using the China Labor Dynamics Survey (CLDS), we discovered that bride prices have an inverted U-shaped nonlinear impact on individual ...