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Consumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage: Evidence from Rural India

Mark R. Rosenzweig¹; Oded Stark²

¹ University of Minnesota System · ² Harvard University Press

A significant proportion of migration in low-income countries, particularly in rural areas, is composed of moves by women for the purpose of marriage. The authors seek to explain these mobility patterns based on a framework in which the marriage of daughters to locationally distant, dispersed yet kinship-related households is a manifestation of implicit interhousehold contractual arrangements aimed at mitigating income risks and facilitating consumption smoothing in an environment characterized by information costs and spatially covariant risks. Analyses of longitudinal data on consumption patterns, income, and marital arrangements in South Indian households lend support to the theory. Copyright 1989 by University of Chicago Press.

DOI

10.1086/261633

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97 (4)

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905-926

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