We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern … that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the … state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …