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Title: EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON WOMEN’S DECISION MAKING: A STUDY OF INDEPENDENCE IN SPOUSE SELECTION IN INDIA USING IHDS-II DATASET
Authors: Chandan Kumar Sharma
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Chandan Kumar Sharma Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
MLA 8 Sharma, Chandan Kumar. "EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON WOMEN’S DECISION MAKING: A STUDY OF INDEPENDENCE IN SPOUSE SELECTION IN INDIA USING IHDS-II DATASET." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 5, no. 11, Nov. 2020, pp. 3578-3587, doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i11.016. Accessed Nov. 2020. APA 6 Sharma, C. (2020, November). EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON WOMEN’S DECISION MAKING: A STUDY OF INDEPENDENCE IN SPOUSE SELECTION IN INDIA USING IHDS-II DATASET. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 5(11), 3578-3587. doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i11.016 Chicago Sharma, Chandan Kumar. "EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON WOMEN’S DECISION MAKING: A STUDY OF INDEPENDENCE IN SPOUSE SELECTION IN INDIA USING IHDS-II DATASET." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 5, no. 11 (November 2020), 3578-3587. Accessed November, 2020. doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i11.016.
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Abstract: This paper examines the effects of education on women’s decision making for their marriages in India. It uses the Indian Human Development Survey II dataset for this purpose. Besides the effects of education, other aspects like religion, caste, age at marriage, and area of residence, which can have influences on their decision-making ability, have also been thoroughly investigated. This paper finds that marriages in India are still dominantly managed by parents with or without participation from the women. However, more educated women are more likely to opt for self-arranged (love marriage) than less educated women. About 9.5 percent of postgraduate women's total marriages are self-arranged marriages, while it is about 3.6 for illiterate women. In other words, compared to an illiterate woman, a post-graduate woman in India is more than twice likely to choose self-arranged marriage over other types of marriages. So, education increases women’s autonomy in decision-making regarding their marriage. Also, young cohorts are more likely to choose their spouse independently. Metro urban resident women across regions of residency, Christian women across religions, and Scheduled Caste women across castes have higher likelihoods of having self-arranged marriages than other women in their respective categories.

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