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 rsistence in India: A Demographic Analysis\, Alaka Basu
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DESCRIPTION:This paper records the rising age at marriage for women and men
  in India and discusses the possible contextual influences on these trends
  – government policy\, economic and social development\, aggressive soci
 al advocacy\, and a marriage squeeze – and then goes on to discuss the p
 otential implications of each of these influences. It cautions against the
  complacent assumption in international and domestic advocacy that rises i
 n the age at marriage reflect only positive changes in underlying circumst
 ances. Accordingly\, it also cautions against the complacent assumption th
 at rises in the age at marriage can have only positive consequences for th
 e health and social welfare of society. These mixed conclusions mean that 
 later marriage cannot be treated as an unequivocal indicator of progress o
 n the development agendas of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and t
 he Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\n\nAlaka M Basu is a professor in
  the Department of Global Development at Cornell University and a Senior F
 ellow at the United Nations Foundation in Washington\, DC. For six years\,
  she was also the Director of the South Asia Program at Cornell University
 .  She has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi\, the Harvard Sc
 hool of Public Health and Georgetown University. Her primary research publ
 ications are in the areas of reproductive health and family planning\, gen
 der and development\, child health and mortality\, the interface of fictio
 n and demographic facts\, and the politics of population policy.  She is a
  regular contributor to national newspapers in India. She served/serves on
  the governing boards of the Population Association of America (PAA)\, the
  International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)\, the 
 Population Council in New York and the Population Reference Bureau in Wash
 ington DC.. She was/is the chair of the IUSSP Scientific Committee on Anth
 ropological Demography\, a member of the Committees on Reproductive Health
  and on Population Projections of the National Research Council at the U.S
 . National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Lancet-Guttmacher Commi
 ssion on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. She is currently on th
 e Editorial Advisory Boards of Population and Development Review and Asian
  Population Studies. She is the series editor of the Policy Briefs produce
 d by the Sociology of Development section of the American Sociological Ass
 ociation.
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SUMMARY:The Puzzle of Rising Education\, Later Marriage\, and Dowry Persist
 ence in India: A Demographic Analysis\, Alaka Basu
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