From British “Pride” to Indian “Bride”

The British Medical Officer's Indian Manual

This compilation is a most useful one. The preface states that the work is designed to supply full information regarding the medical regulations in this country, in so far as these differ from those contained in the Army Medical Regulations of 1857The hook, moreover, contains a collection of departmental circulars issued from the office of the Inspector-General of Hospitals, British Service, fr...

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

This paper provides an economic analysis of the practice of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan based on a Beckerian model of family fertility and consumption. Bride kidnapping is considered to be a way of marrying a wife at lower cost. In our settings, bride kidnapping is rational behavior for an elder generation that values offspring more than does the younger generation. In existence of bride kid...

A First DFA on PRIDE: From Theory to Practice

Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal

Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments reduce fertility pressure, with a woman reducing her number of children by 0.5 at the mean bride price. The results are robust to dif...

Pride & Prejudice

Editorial Napoleon Bonaparte, once emperor of France, commented on the subject of medicine in this way: " Medicine is not an exact and positive science but a science based on conjectures and observations. I would have more confidence in a physician who has not studied the natural sciences than in one who has. " We should consider his words as we face the remarkable development of the field of p...