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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Assortative Mating, Family Characteristics and Marital
Transactions in India
Author(s): Sonia Dalmia
Citation: Sonia Dalmia, (2011) "Assortative Mating, Family Characteristics and Marital
Transactions in India," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 12, Iss. 3, pp. 110 - 121
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
This paper examines how equilibrium sorting takes place in marriage markets in India where
matches are often arranged and are accompanied by a monetary transfer from the bride’s
household to the groom’s household. It constructs an empirical model of spouse selection based
on Becker’s (1973) efficient marriage market hypothesis. By specifying a marital production
function and introducing the influence of multiple individual characteristics simultaneously in
the matching technology, this paper creates a matching algorithm and uses the estimated
parameters to isolate the characteristics that drive the matching process and to examine positive
assortative mating with respect to nonmarket characteristics.
