Publié le 17 avril 2025–Mis à jour le 17 avril 2025
Webinaire Junior sur l'économie des migrations. Across-District Marriage Migration in India
Sophie Brochet
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona School of Economics
Coauteurs : Jacek Barszczewski and Prasanthi Ramakrishnan.
Résumé
Approximately two-thirds of Indian women migrate for marriage, with roughly one-fifth relocating across district boundaries. Given the skewed regional disparities in India’s sex ratio, we examine the influence of this on women’s marriage migration patterns and female intra-household bargaining power. We document new empirical facts associated with sex ratio, probability of marriage migration, and household characteristics. We find that women are more likely to migrate for marriage to a region with a more skewed sex ratio and to a rural household, where the household head has at least primary education. We then build a collective household marriage market model to understand the impact of marriage migration on bargaining power of women. Preliminary results indicate that an increase in the probability of marriage migration results in lower bargaining power among women.
