![]() ![]() Education is associated with greater autonomy in partner choice decision but it most strongly associated with parent arranged marriages with consent. Results from multinomial regression analysis confirm that the trend towards parent arranged marriages with the daughter’s consent has been persistent over time. Contrary to our hypothesis, the largest difference between educated and their less educated counterparts is not with respect to parent-arranged and self-arranged marriages rather it is between parent arranged marriages with no participation (22 percentage points) and parent arranged marriages with consent (36 percentage points). Share of jointly arranged and self-arranged marriages have remained somewhat similar across birth cohorts. There has been an almost equal 5 percentage point increase in parent-arranged marriages in which daughters have participated. Descriptive statistics indicate that parent-arranged marriages in which the daughter has no participation have declined 5 percentage points from the oldest to the youngest cohort. We distinguish between four marriage types- parent arranged marriage with no participation, parent arranged marriage with participation, jointly arranged marriage and self- arranged marriage. In particular, we examine (1) if women of recent cohorts (born around 1980) are less likely to report arranged marriages than women of older cohorts (born around 1956) and (2) if educated women are less likely to report arranged marriages than their less educated counterparts. Using a very unique data set (India Human Development Survey, 2005), this paper examines if self-arranged marriages (or love marriages) have replaced parent-arranged marriages as the dominant form of marriage in India.
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