Francis Bloch, Vijayendra Rao, Sonalde Desai, Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural India, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer, 2004), pp. 675-695
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Bloch et al. (2004) studied this question.