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- Title
CAN'T BUY ME LOVE? A FIELD EXPERIMENT EXPLORING THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN INCOME AND CASTE-STATUS IN AN INDIAN MATRIMONIAL MARKET.
- Authors
DUGAR, SUBHASISH; BHATTACHARYA, HAIMANTI; REILEY, DAVID
- Abstract
A large body of literature depicts that status-based discrimination is pervasive, but is silent on how economic incentive interacts with such discrimination. This study addresses this question by designing a field experiment in a reputable arranged marriage market that is prone to strong caste-status-based discrimination. We place newspaper advertisements of potential grooms by systematically varying their caste and income and focus on responses of higher-caste females to lower-caste males. The substantive finding is that despite the evidence of discrimination, discriminatory behavior of higher-status females decreases with an increase in the advertised monthly income of lower-status males. ( JEL C93, J12, J15)
- Subjects
INDIA; MATE selection; CONJOINT analysis; ECONOMIC aspects of decision making; INCOME; SOCIAL status; INDIC castes
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 2012, Vol 50, Issue 2, p534
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00398.x