TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - The economics of female genital cutting
JO  - BE journal of economic analysis and policy
A1  - Chesnokova, Tatyana
A1  - Vaithianathan, Rhema
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VL  - 10
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1935-1682
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1935-1682.2565
ID  - ref1
ER  -