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 …

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 …