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No toilet, no bride: the unlikely link between private toilets and marriage market outcomes in India

Augsburg, Britta and Rodríguez Lesmes, Paul (2015) No toilet, no bride: the unlikely link between private toilets and marriage market outcomes in India. South Asia @ LSE (08 Oct 2015). Website.

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Abstract

In the latest post of our SDGs series (with Africa at LSE and the IGC), Britta Augsburg and Paul Rodríguez Lesmes examine the sanitation crisis in India, with a study on the determinants of toilet acquisition. Toilets represent an unlikely status symbol for households, and new findings suggest that households may see toilets acquisition as a means of improving the marriage prospects of their sons.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author(s)
Divisions: International Growth Centre
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
J Political Science > JC Political theory
J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia
T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Date Deposited: 02 May 2017 09:15
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 20:01
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/74895

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