1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Sikkim University, India
2Assistant Professor, Institute of Technology and Science, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, India
3Sr. Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University, Australia
Online published on 9 January, 2020.
Extramarital affairs have become a feature of modern life-so much so that in some cultures it is even treated as an acceptable phenomenon for a spouse to have a relationship outside marriage. India is no exception to this phenomenon, and the combination of modernisation, economic emancipation of women and greater exposure to global trends has facilitated this process. The present paper utilises techniques like Poisson, Negative Binomial and Zero Inflated Poisson for studying the effect of diverse causal variables on the occurrence of extramarital relationships. The results suggest that factors like degree of religiousness, educational qualification, occupation, location (urban or rural), etc. play an important role in this regard.
Extramarital affairs, Modern Life, Poisson, Negative Binomial, Zero Inflated Poisson
