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Meetings and exposure before an arranged marriage: a probabilistic analysis

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It is now common for parents and relatives of an individual seeking to have an arranged marriage to set up one or more meetings between this individual and prospective spouses. As a result of these meetings, prospective spouses get exposed to this marrying individual. Even though this exposure level has a significant bearing on the eventual likelihood of marriage, as best as can be told, the economics literature has paid no attention to the probabilistic attributes of meetings and the resultant level of exposure. As such, this note has three objectives. First, a simple stochastic model is analysed that focuses on the links between the trinity of meetings, exposure levels, and an arranged marriage. Next, the conditional density function of the exposure level random variable is derived under two assumptions about the eventual likelihood of marriage. Finally, an interesting property of a specific ratio of densities that is related to the above mentioned trinity is commented on.

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  • Amitrajeet Batabyal, 2004. "Meetings and exposure before an arranged marriage: a probabilistic analysis," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(8), pages 473-476.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:11:y:2004:i:8:p:473-476
    DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000244495
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    1. Batabyal, Amitrajeet, 2016. "Making an arranged marriage work: A game-theoretic analysis," MPRA Paper 71199, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 06 May 2016.
    2. repec:ebl:ecbull:v:15:y:2007:i:12:p:1-10 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Amitrajeet A Batabyal & Hamid Beladi, 2013. "Setting the dowry optimally to extract the full surplus: a contract theory perspective," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 33(3), pages 2034-2041.
    4. repec:ebl:ecbull:v:10:y:2005:i:3:p:1-8 is not listed on IDEAS
    5. Batabyal, Amitrajeet & Beladi, Hamid, 2007. "Mediator learning and dowry determination in an arranged marriage setting," MPRA Paper 71982, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Amitrajeet Batabyal, 2005. "A game model of dowry determination in an arranged marriage context," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 10(3), pages 1-8.
    7. Jeremy Bertomeu & Hamid Beladi, 2007. "Mediator learning and dowry determination in an arranged marriage setting," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 15(12), pages 1-10.

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