Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000

This study analyses data from the Vietnam Study of Family Change to document trends and determinants of marriage payments in Vietnam from 1963 to 2000. We investigate the extent to which structural and policy transformations influenced the practice of payments, and estimate how societal changes indi...

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Main Authors: TEERAWICHITCHAINAN, Bussarawan, KNODEL, John
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-23912020-01-23T07:51:04Z Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000 TEERAWICHITCHAINAN, Bussarawan KNODEL, John This study analyses data from the Vietnam Study of Family Change to document trends and determinants of marriage payments in Vietnam from 1963 to 2000. We investigate the extent to which structural and policy transformations influenced the practice of payments, and estimate how societal changes indirectly impacted payments via their effects on population characteristics. Results indicate that marriage payments surged following market reform, but also reveal nuanced trends during earlier years. While the socialist attempts to eradicate brideprice appear to have been successful in the North before economic renovation, they were unsuccessful in the South. Structural and policy change explained most of the observed variations in payments. The changing characteristics of the married individuals mattered relatively less. We interpret the re-emergence of marriage payments as attesting to the resilience of traditional values and the unravelling of the socialist agenda, but also as a reflection of Vietnam's economic prosperity in the 1990s. 2012-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1135 info:doi/10.1080/17441730.2012.675677 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2391/viewcontent/Tradition_and_Change_in_Marriage_Payments_in_Vietnam_1963_2000_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University brideprice dowry Vietnam marriage Asian Studies Family, Life Course, and Society
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TEERAWICHITCHAINAN, Bussarawan
KNODEL, John
Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000
description This study analyses data from the Vietnam Study of Family Change to document trends and determinants of marriage payments in Vietnam from 1963 to 2000. We investigate the extent to which structural and policy transformations influenced the practice of payments, and estimate how societal changes indirectly impacted payments via their effects on population characteristics. Results indicate that marriage payments surged following market reform, but also reveal nuanced trends during earlier years. While the socialist attempts to eradicate brideprice appear to have been successful in the North before economic renovation, they were unsuccessful in the South. Structural and policy change explained most of the observed variations in payments. The changing characteristics of the married individuals mattered relatively less. We interpret the re-emergence of marriage payments as attesting to the resilience of traditional values and the unravelling of the socialist agenda, but also as a reflection of Vietnam's economic prosperity in the 1990s.
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author TEERAWICHITCHAINAN, Bussarawan
KNODEL, John
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title Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000
title_short Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000
title_full Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000
title_fullStr Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000
title_full_unstemmed Tradition and Change in Marriage Payments in Vietnam, 1963-2000
title_sort tradition and change in marriage payments in vietnam, 1963-2000
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2012
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1135
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