"Part one of a three-paper series." "This paper is part of a technical paper series covering interconnections between sex ratio and marriage squeeze; class and education; and crime rates"--Cover. "Rapid fertility decline and availability of sex determination technologies have led to a skewed sex ratio in favour of males. This imbalace in the sex ratio at birth impacts the marriage markets, albeit in a lagged manner, resulting in a 'male marriage squeeze'. This paper examines the present and future trends of marriage squeeze in India. For this purpose, an 'original' age-sex distribution is constructed using different data sources such as Census, NFHS, NSS, SRS. Several methods are used for this analysis, focusing on two main determinants of marriage squeeze - age gap and education gap."--Abstract. Includes statistical tables. Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-46). Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (india.unfpa.org, viewed December 03, 2021).
Authors
Ravinder Kaur (Professor), author., United Nations Population Fund, India, associated name., United Nations Population Fund, copyright holder.
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- [New Delhi] : United Nations Population Fund, 2017.
