No toilet, no bride: the unlikely link between private toilets and marriage market outcomes in India
Augsburg, B. & Rodríguez Lesmes, P.
(2015).
No toilet, no bride: the unlikely link between private toilets and marriage market outcomes in India.
In the latest post of our SDGs series (with Africa at LSE and the IGC), Britta Augsburg and Paul Rodríguez Lesmes examine the sanitation crisis in India, with a study on the determinants of toilet acquisition. Toilets represent an unlikely status symbol for households, and new findings suggest that households may see toilets acquisition as a means of improving the marriage prospects of their sons.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2015 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE > Research Centres > International Growth Centre |
| Date Deposited | 02 May 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/74895 |