BACKGROUND
In contrast to global trends in which education hypogamy occurs when a reversal in the gender gap has taken place, an increase in women’s education in India is closely followed by hypogamy, although women are still the less-educated gender. Two trends associated with this development suggest that educational hypogamy is a product of status exchange: an increase in educational hypogamy among lower-caste groups and a slow rise in caste exogamy.

OBJECTIVE
The primary objective of this study is to determine whether status exchanges can explain educational hypogamy in India. The initial assumptions are that educational hypogamy can be explained by the desire of women to ‘marry up’ to attain the caste of the husband and of women who belong to higher castes (who have less to gain by caste status) to ‘marry up’ to benefit from the occupation of the husband.

METHODS
The Indian Demographic and Health Survey 2015–2016 dataset and logistic regression models were used to address the research question. The findings suggest that the educational trade-off with social and economic exchanges is interconnected, which is affected significantly by the caste groups to which the women and their prospective husbands belong. When marrying less-educated men, the preference to rise by caste is high among lower-caste women, whereas the preference to rise by occupation is important among women belonging to higher castes.



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身份交换可以解释印度的教育低配吗？（科耶尔萨卡）

背景
与当性别差距发生逆转时发生教育低配的全球趋势相反，印度女性教育的增加紧随其后的是低配，尽管女性仍然是受教育程度较低的性别。与这种发展相关的两个趋势表明，教育低配是地位交换的产物：低种姓群体中教育低配的增加和种姓外婚的缓慢上升。

客观的
本研究的主要目的是确定身份交换是否可以解释印度的教育低配。最初的假设是，教育低配可以解释为女性渴望“结婚”以获得丈夫的种姓，以及属于较高种姓的女性（她们通过种姓地位获得的收益较少）“结婚”从丈夫的职业中受益。

方法
印度人口与健康调查 2015-2016 数据集和逻辑回归模型用于解决研究问题。研究结果表明，教育权衡与社会和经济交流是相互关联的，这受到女性及其未来丈夫所属的种姓群体的显着影响。在与受教育程度较低的男性结婚时，低种姓女性更倾向于按种姓上升，而在较高种姓的女性中，按职业上升的偏好很重要。