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On hunger and public action

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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper analyzes how preferences for a non-economic characteristic, such as caste, canaffect equilibrium patterns of matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We develop a model thatdemonstrates how the...

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