exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the … disadvantaged minority populations. In response to the employment quotas, individuals belonging to the Scheduled Caste group are …

The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … caste status and occupational segregation that has existed historically in India. We find evidence that the occupational …. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially in rural …

unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter …Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant intercaste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … literature that debates the importance of socioeconomic status (SES) in determining health and survival. They augment a growing … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence …

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …

hierarchy – the caste system – affects individuals' willingness to punish violations of a cooperation norm. Although we control … for individual wealth, education, and political participation, low caste individuals exhibit a much lower willingness to … punish norm violations that hurt members of their own caste, suggesting a cultural difference across caste status in the …