Monetary incentives on inter-caste marriages in India: Theory and evidence

Hortaçsu, Ali; Hwang, Sam Il Myoung; Mathur, Divya

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102371

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“…I rely on self-reported attitudes, and it may not be obvious to what extent attitudes translate into more accepting behaviours. For instance, in the case of questions related to inter-caste marriage, responses supporting inter-caste marriage may not necessarily translate into action, given the low incidence of inter-caste marriage in India (Goli et al 2013;Hortaçsu et al 2019). In the future, it may be possible to follow up with the sample and test actual behaviours in order to see if attitudes translate into more prosocial behaviours.…”

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“…Under such policies, quotas for these groups were created in higher education, political office, and government jobs. In addition, there are monetary incentives offered by several states for couples marrying outside their castes (Hortaçsu et al 2019). The role of caste has been studied extensively in rural India (Mosse 2018;Munshi 2017;Vijayabaskar and Kalaiyarasan 2014).…”

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“…people marry within their own caste). Only 4.9 per cent of marriages in India take place outside caste (Goli et al 2013), despite state governments providing incentives for marrying outside caste (Hortaçsu et al 2019). Affirmative action policies in India aim to counter caste-based injustice and discrimination, which are still rampant in Indian society (Bagde et al 2016;Munshi 2017).…”

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Intergroup contact and its effects on discriminatory attitudes Evidence from India

Bhattacharya¹

2021

WIDER Working Paper

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The contact hypothesis posits that having diverse neighbours may reduce one’s intergroup prejudice. This hypothesis is difficult to test as individuals self-select into neighbourhoods. Using a slum relocation programme in India that randomly assigned neighbours, I examine the effects of exposure to other-caste neighbours on trust and attitudes towards members of other castes. Combining administrative data on housing assignment with original survey data on attitudes, I find evidence corroborating the contact hypothesis. Exposure to more neighbours of other castes increases inter-caste trust, support for inter-caste marriage, and the belief that caste injustice is growing. I explore the role of friendships in facilitating these favourable attitudes. The findings shed light on the positive effects of exposure to diverse social groups through close proximity in neighbourhoods.

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Intergroup contact and its effects on discriminatory attitudes Evidence from India

Bhattacharya¹

2021

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“…In modern legal systems, caste has long been considered to hinder equality before the law, and caste-based public rules have long been deemed unlawful in modern society. Several studies in various Hindu societies have confirmed a shift in the trend of change between castes, including in India (Ray et al, 2020;Narzary, & Ladusingh, 2019;Kannan, 1961;Hortaçsu et al, 2019;Cahyaningtyas, 2016;Rukmini, 2014;Das et al, 2011). This makes caste-based marriage regulations relevant for carrying out religious obligations, but not for the modern law.…”

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Social Changes of Traditional Rules in Facing Contemporary Developments: A Sociological Study of Intercaste Marriagein Balinese Society

Sadnyini

Gorda

2021

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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Nowadays, it is important to examine the impetus for changes of traditional rules in facing contemporary developments and in this regard, this study took a private subject of rules on inter-caste marriage in the Balinese Hindu community. In this context, this study aims to investigate how the inter-caste marriage system is run as an effort to bridge traditional values and modern values based on legal equality and citizenship by taking Balinese society. This research is empirical research with a historical approach with the object of the research is inter-caste marriages. The results showed that the development of inter-caste marriage rules in the monarchy period was derived from Hindu law. The rules on inter-caste marriage during the colonial period can be found in the Peswara and after the independence, the inter-caste marriage is regulated in the Decree of House of Representative of Bali Province, Bhisama Sabha Pandita, and the Decree of MDP Bali. The Hindu community still maintains the sanctions against inter-caste marriage because of their adherence to the customary law of the traditional village.

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“…In some cases, reservations have led to better outcomes for lower castes (Bagde et al., 2016; Khanna, 2020). Research on the persistence of caste has emphasized its important role in marriage and family organization (Banerjee et al., 2013; Bidner & Eswaran, 2015; Hortacsu et al., 2019), job networks (Munshi & Rosenzweig, 2016), discrimination against lower castes in labor markets (Ito, 2009; Siddique, 2011), risk and insurance (Mobarak & Rosenzweig, 2013), and other forms of information dissemination (Bönte & Filipiak, 2012). All of these point to the importance of caste and why or how it is valuable; they do not, however, quantify how much someone may pay for that value.…”

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A (paid) passage to India: Migration and revealed willingness to pay for upper‐caste status

Persaud

2023

Economic Inquiry

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How much are individuals willing to pay for privileged status in a society with systemic discrimination? Utilizing unique data on indentured Indians in Fiji paying to return to India, I calculate how much upper-caste individuals were willing to pay historically for their status. I show the lower bound of the value of the uppermost castes in north India equaled almost 2.5 years' gross wages.The ordering follows hypothesized inter-caste hierarchies and shows diminishing effects as caste status falls. Men entirely drive the effects. My results show some of the first evidence quantifying caste status values and speak to caste's persistence.

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Monetary incentives on inter-caste marriages in India: Theory and evidence

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Intergroup contact and its effects on discriminatory attitudes Evidence from India

Intergroup contact and its effects on discriminatory attitudes Evidence from India

Social Changes of Traditional Rules in Facing Contemporary Developments: A Sociological Study of Intercaste Marriagein Balinese Society

A (paid) passage to India: Migration and revealed willingness to pay for upper‐caste status

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