Migration in India, particularly in rural areas, is dominated by the movements of women for the purpose of marriage. These are analyzed by mobility patterns by examining marital arrangements among Indian households. In particular, it is hypothesize that the marrying out of daughters to locationally distant, dispersed yet kinship-related households, are manifestations of implicit inter-household contractual arrangements aimed at mitigating income risks and facilitating consumption smoothing in an environment characterized by information costs and spatially covariant risks. [UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA].
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