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- Title
Contract Marriages for International Migration in Punjab: A Study of Socio-Economic Status of Households.
- Authors
Sabharwal, Anupam; Singh, Puran
- Abstract
Marriage frauds have reached a critical juncture as contract marriage becomes a modus operandi to reach the destination country. Contract marriage is an unwritten agreement or contract between two young potential migrant marriageable couples, i.e., bride and groom for achieving a common goal of international mobility. It is like a situation of the Stackelberg model, where one acts as a leader and the second follows him. In this situation, the bride acts as a leader due to her better quality of education and groom becomes the follower. The study concluded that the degree of the bride’s control over her marital decisions and choice of mate is more based on socio-economic status of the groom’s families than individual traits of the grooms. In contrast, the groom’s marital decisions and his choice of mate are determined only by the spouse’s quality of human capital formation. The study also shows that the role of social and economic networks is of paramount importance in facilitating and speeding up the flow of the contract marriages for migration.
- Subjects
PRENUPTIAL agreements; INTERNATIONAL marriage; EMIGRATION &; immigration; SOCIOECONOMIC status; CONTRACTS; FOLLOWERSHIP
- Publication
Artha Vijnana, 2024, Vol 66, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
0971-586X
- Publication type
Article