Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … one's own group or if there is a preference for \marrying up". We then estimateactual preferences for caste, education … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to …