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the literature. We plan to address this issue in the current paper. Our data
request for the same is pending and hence, in the current version we discuss
our methodology using simulated datasets.
The long term effects of this include the marriage markets being affected
by the phenomenon of `marriage squeeze'. The phrase marriage squeeze
refers to the demographic imbalance in which the number of potential brides
does not approximately equal the number of potential grooms. When not
everyone has an opportunity to marry, some will be squeezed out of the
marriage market. An excess of eligible women is called a female marriage
squeeze; an excess of eligible men is called a male marriage squeeze. It may
be caused due to unavailability of eligible partners in appropriate population
strata defined by age, education, religion, or other social categories. Hence, if
the society continues to value educational hypergamy, the females in the
highest educational level and males in the lowest educational level are
expected to be victims of marriage squeeze. Such marriage squeeze can
further lead to changes in birth rates and thereby to changes in the entire
population structure. Hence, examining these changes is crucial. Rest of the
paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses the methodology for
developing the test, section 3 discusses the simulation study and the
observations from that study and section 4 gives some concluding remarks
and discusses the future scope.

Figure 1: Female literacy rate in India

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