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1、MARRIAGEINSTITUTIONSANDSIBLINGCOMPETITION:EVIDENCEFROMSOUTHASIA*TomS.VoglUsingdatafromSouthAsia,thisarticleexamineshowarrangedmarriagecultivatesrivalryamongsisters.Duringmarriagesearch,parentswithmultipledaughtersreducethereservationqualityforanolderdaug
2、htersgroom,rushinghermarriagetoallowsufficienttimetomarryoffheryoungersisters.Relativetoyoungerbrothers,youngersistersincreaseagirlsmarriagerisk;relativetoDownloadedfromyoungersingletonsisters,youngertwinsistershavethesameeffect.Theseeffectsintensifyinmar
3、riagemarketswithlowersexratiosorgreaterparentalinvolvementinmarriagearrangements.Incontrast,oldersistersdelayagirlsmarriage.Becausegirlsleaveschoolwhentheymarryandfacelimitedearningopportunitieswhentheyreachadulthood,thenumberofsistershaswell-beingconseq
4、uencesoverthelifecycle.Youngersisterscauseearlierschool-leaving,http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/lowerliteracy,amatchtoahusbandwithlesseducationandalessskilledoccupation,and(marginally)loweradulteconomicstatus.Datafromabroadersetofcountriesindicatethatthese
5、cross-sisterpressuresonmarriageagearecommonthroughoutthedevelopingworld,althoughtheschoolingcostsvarybysetting.JELCodes:J1,I25,O15.I.IntroductionEconomic,social,andculturalchangeoccurunevenly,withatUniversityofAdelaideonJuly7,2013somebehaviorsandinstitut
6、ionslaggingbehindtechnologicalpro-gress.Socialscientistshavelongbeeninterestedinhowtheseslowlyevolvingtraditionsinteractwiththeprocessofdevelop-ment(e.g.,Weber1905;Grief1994;Guiso,Sapienza,andZingales2006).Onesuchtraditionisarrangedmarriage.Althougharran
7、gedmarriagehasgraduallygivenwaytolove-basedmarriageinsomesocietiesoverthepastmillennium,itremainsprevalentinmanypartsoftheworld(Goode1970;*IamgratefultoEricaField,MichaelKremer,andespeciallyDavidCutler,ClaudiaGoldin,andLawrenceKatzfortheirguidancethrough
8、outthisresearchproject.Ithanktheeditor,RobertBarro;fouranonymousreferees;RuchirAgarwal,AnneCase,AmitabhChandra,JoyceChen,TomCunningham,JanetCurrie,ThomasFujiwara,SupreetKaur,MichalKolesar,EdGlaeser,SeemaJayachandran,KyleMe
