study if this so-called marriage squeeze has caused a dowry "inflation" in India. Using data from Karnataka it is shown that …

(India) and the fertility behaviours of their biological mother and mother-in-law. This information is based on scheduled …This paper investigates the associations between preferred family size of married women aged 16-34 in rural Bihar … family size is first measured by Coombs scale, allowing us to capture latent desired number of children, and then categorized …

With reference to substantial fall in fertility among illiterate women and rising of child schooling in India …