exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …

Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged … minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the … 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment quota policy significantly affects the occupational structure of both …

other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …

We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …