Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
This paper analyzes how preferences for a noneconomic characteristic (e.g., caste) can affect equilibrium patterns of matching, and empirically evaluates this in the context of middle-class Indian arranged marriages. We show theoretically how the equilibrium consequences of caste depend on whether p...
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American Economic Association
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82613 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-617X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088 |