@article{ref1,
title="The economics of female genital cutting",
journal="BE journal of economic analysis and policy",
year="2010",
author="Chesnokova, Tatyana and Vaithianathan, Rhema",
volume="10",
number="1",
pages="-",
abstract="The practice of female genital cutting (FGC) has a long history in Africa and it is thought that over 130 million females alive today have undergone the practice. In this paper, we model FGC as a pre-marital investment. We show how the rat-race nature of the marriage market may result in inefficiently high equilibrium levels of FGC. We argue that in this case, regulation results in a (potential) Pareto improvement and that even weak regulation can be effective in eradicating FGC.<p />",
language="",
issn="1935-1682",
doi="10.2202/1935-1682.2565",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1935-1682.2565"
}