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The bride price, as an informal institution originated from traditional culture, is pervasive in many areas of the developing world in a form of a payment from the family of the groom to that of the bride at marriage. We study the effects of bride price on parents' health in China. Using information on bride price payment and various health measures from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, we find that the bride price significantly reduces self-reported health among the grooms' parents after addressing the endogeneity issue with average sex ratio within a family computed as an instrumental variable. The reductions are heterogenous across urban and rural areas. Mechanism analysis suggests the negative health outcomes are driven by family debt, heavier psychological stress and longer work hours caused by bride price payments.
彩礼作为一种源于传统文化的非正式制度，在发展中国家的许多地区普遍存在，其形式是新郎家庭在结婚时向新娘家庭支付的一笔款项。我们研究了彩礼对中国父母健康的影响。利用《中国健康与退休纵向研究》（China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study）中关于彩礼支付和各种健康测量指标的信息，我们发现彩礼在解决了内生性问题后，会显著降低新郎父母自我报告的健康水平，而内生性问题是通过计算家庭中的平均性别比作为工具变量来解决的。在城市和农村地区，降低的幅度是不同的。机制分析表明，家庭债务、彩礼带来的更大心理压力和更长的工作时间是造成负面健康结果的原因。
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