Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak, Jeanne Lafortune. 2013

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Caste and the Indian Economy (2019, background): “It follows, from inequality (12), that ωG ωO < 1.”
Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in U.S. Schools after World War I (2019, background): “How can marriage decisions be affected by the language of instruction in school? The choice of a spouse involves an important preference component (Fisman et al., 2008; Banerjee et al., 2009), and US society has historically been characterized by marriage segregation along racial, religious, and eth”
The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2012, background): “3 There is some evidence that beauty matters for social interaction, such as for marriage outcomes (Banerjee et al. 2009), online dating (Hitsch, Hortaçsu, and Ariely2010), and academic success (French et al. 2009).”
What makes you click?—Mate preferences in online dating (2010, methodology): “2Lee (2009) and Banerjee et al. (2009) follow Hitsch et al. (2010) by estimating a discrete choice preference model and simulating equilibrium match outcomes using the Gale-Shapley algorithm.”
Smart, Responsible, and Upper Caste Only: Measuring Caste Attitudes through Large-Scale Analysis of Matrimonial Profiles (2019, background): “Previous research on intercaste marriage primarily relies on rich ethnographies (Fuller and Narasimhan 2008; Kannan 1963), qualitative interviews (Dhar 2013), surveys (Goli, Singh, and Sekher 2013; Ray, Chaudhuri, and Sahai 2017) and audit studies (Banerjee et al. 2013; Ahuja and Ostermann 2016).”
Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration (2021, methodology): “(Munshi (2011), Munshi and Rosenzweig (2016), Banerjee et al. (2013), Banerjee et al. (2010)).”