@article{ref1,
title="Gender Bias in Education: the Role of Inter-household Externality, Dowry and other Social Institutions",
journal="Review of development economics",
year="2007",
author="Lahiri, Sajal and Self, Sharmistha",
volume="11",
number="4",
pages="591-606",
abstract="We analyze gender bias in school enrollment by developing a two-period model where women become part of extended families of their in-laws. Each family decides how many sons and daughters are sent to school and thus become skilled. Gender bias occurs due to failure of the families to internalize inter-household externalities. &quot;Groom-specific&quot; dowry worsens the situation. Under &quot;bride-specific&quot; dowry, bias exists if and only if the skill premium in the labor market is bigger than that in the marriage market. A specific discriminatory &quot;food-for-education&quot; policy is shown to reduce bias, but increase total enrollment.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1363-6669",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00387.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00387.x"
}