Abstract
This paper analyzes the relationship between a daughter’s education and the price her family pays for a groom in India. I use an Indian national school-latrine-construction initiative as a policy instrument to address the problem of endogeneity between parental spending on education and groomprice. I find that a woman with an additional year of education marries a more educated groom and pays on average an extra 6 percent for her groomprice. A woman pays extra for each additional year of her groom’s education, resulting in the total effect of a woman with more education paying more groomprice. I do not find an increase in years of education to have any significant effect on wages or employment of women, this suggests return to human capital for women is still low in India and does not have a significant impact on groomprice.
Recommended Citation
Taznin, Mahjuja
(2022)
"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GROOM PRICE AND PARENTS’ INVESTMENT IN THEIR DAUGHTERS’ HUMAN CAPITAL,"
Pennsylvania Economic Review: Vol. 29:
No.
1, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.65193/3067-8080.1037