{"id":215,"date":"2020-08-25T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/?p=215"},"modified":"2020-11-17T00:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T05:39:19","slug":"karra-ajae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/2020\/08\/25\/karra-ajae\/","title":{"rendered":"Karra\u2019s Research Published in AJAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/mahesh-karra\/\">Mahesh Karra<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, had his research published in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ajae\"><em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his research, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/ajae.12114\">Curse of the Mummy\u2010ji: The Influence of Mothers\u2010in\u2010Law on Women in India<\/a>,\u201d Karra characterizes young married women\u2019s social networks in rural India and analyzes how inter\u2010generational power dynamics within the household affect their network formation. The results show that show that co\u2010residence with ones mother\u2010in\u2010law is negatively correlated with her daughter\u2010in\u2010law\u2019s mobility and ability to form social connections outside the household, especially those related to health, fertility, and family planning.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt of the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit women\u2019s access to and benefits from social networks, especially in patrilocal societies\u2026Our findings suggest that the mother\u2010in\u2010law\u2019s restrictive behavior is potentially driven by the misalignment of fertility preferences between the mother\u2010in\u2010law and the daughter\u2010in\u2010law. The lack of peers outside the household lowers the daughter\u2010in\u2010law\u2019s likelihood of visiting a family planning clinic and of using modern contraception. We find suggestive evidence that this is because outside peers (a) positively influence daughter\u2010in\u2010law\u2019s beliefs about the social acceptability of family planning and (b) enable the daughter\u2010in\u2010law to overcome mobility constraints by accompanying her to health clinics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, had his research published in the\u00a0American Journal of Agricultural Economics. In his research, titled \u201cCurse of the Mummy\u2010ji: The Influence of Mothers\u2010in\u2010Law on Women in India,\u201d Karra characterizes young married women\u2019s social networks in rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[8,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mvkarra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}