Inter-economic group marriages and health status of (ever) married women in India

Chitwan Lalji ()
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Chitwan Lalji: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

No 482, Working papers from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Abstract: : We estimate the gaps in health outcomes (such as self-assessed physical health, BMI, incidence of underweight and incidence of normal weight) between women who had same and inter-economic group marriages. For this purpose, we use data from the two waves of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) (2004-05 and 2011-12) and use various panel data techniques. The health status of women with inter-economic group marriages were found to be lower than the health status of women who had same-economic group marriages. Women from inter-economic group marriages were found to have lesser (self-assessed) physical health and higher chances of being underweight (relative to women from same-economic group marriages – where both partner’s family had same economic status at the time of marriage).

Pages: 3 pages
Date: 2022-03
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