The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh.
Bangladesh
arranged love marriage
arranged marriage
love marriage
market integration
Journal
Evolutionary human sciences
ISSN: 2513-843X
Titre abrégé: Evol Hum Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101773423
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
21
03
2022
revised:
26
10
2022
accepted:
27
10
2022
medline:
17
8
2023
pubmed:
17
8
2023
entrez:
17
8
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parents exert financial and social powers to influence spouse characteristics and ensure optimal marriages. While arranging marriages is a major focus of parental investment, marriage decisions are also a source of conflict between parents and daughters in which parents often have more power. The process of market integration may alter parental investment strategies, however, increasing children's bargaining power and reducing parents' influence over children's marriage decisions. We use data from a market integrating region of Bangladesh to (a) describe temporal changes in marriage types, (b) identify which women enter arranged marriages and (c) determine how market integration affects patterns of arranged marriage. Most women's marriages were arranged, with love marriages more recent. We found few predictors of who entered arranged vs. love marriages, and family-level market integration did not predict marriage type at the individual level. However, based on descriptive findings, and findings relating women's and fathers' education to groom characteristics, we argue that at the society-level market integration has opened a novel path in which daughters use their own status, gained via parental investments, to facilitate good marriages under conditions of reduced parental assistance or control.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37587939
doi: 10.1017/ehs.2022.54
pii: S2513843X22000548
pmc: PMC10426007
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e5Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2022.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
R. Sear is an editor at EHS.
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