<p>Tyler Cowen points to an interesting paper from Divya Mathur which suggests that</p>
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<p>when parents are involved in mate choice, sons are significantly less likely to marry college-educated women and women engaged in the labor force, after controlling for individual and family characteristics. I show that these effects are driven, at least in part, by parental preferences and cannot entirely be attributed to correlation between arranged marriages and unobserved characteristics. <strong>These results suggest that lowering the incentive for parental control in mate choice may improve investments in women's human capital in India.</strong></p>
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