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CESSI Summer Lecture Series

"Effect of Marital Traditions on Female Economic Outcomes: the Case of Bridal Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan"

Event Details

Date
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Time
4 p.m.
Description
Dana Bazarkulova (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan) analyzes the effect of local marital traditions practiced in Central Asia on female labor, education outcomes, and wellbeing. The marital traditions in Central Asia take forms of marriage arrangement and bridal kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is a process of abducting a woman for marriage. It takes various forms from elopement to non-consensual violent abduction. 
Cost
Free & open to the public

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