Marriage in modern India: does caste still matter for mate selection?

Ghatak, Maitreesh ORCID: 0000-0002-0126-0897, Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther and Lafortune, Jeanne (2012) Marriage in modern India: does caste still matter for mate selection? (03 Oct 2012). Website.

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LSE’s Maitreesh Ghatak, Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Esther Duflo (MIT), and Jeanne Lafortune (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) analyse why a strong preference for intra-caste marriages endures despite changing economic incentives, which should have made characteristics such as education or income more attractive. This article is the second instalment of a three-part series on changing marriage norms among middle-class Indians.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/
Additional Information:	© 2012 The Author(s)
Divisions:	STICERD
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2024 11:27
Last Modified:	10 Sep 2025 07:34
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/125163

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