Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - 2010
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we … frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage …
