Stochastic Models of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages

The central objective of this work is to demonstrate how the theory of stochastic processes and the techniques of stochastic modeling can be used to effectively model arranged marriage settings and to help explain various aspects of the nature of decision-making in arranged marriages. Economistsand social scientists more generallywill find this book useful when conducting empirical and theoretical research on a subject of considerable importance in contemporary times.

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is the Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics at the Rochester Institute of Technology.