Banerjee, Abhijit; Dufloi, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2012
This paper analyzes how preferences for a non-economic characteristic, such as caste, can affect equilibrium patterns of matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates this in the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We develop a model that demonstrates how the...