aggregate economy. We study this phenomenon in a setting where work and identity are particularly intertwined: the Indian caste … system. Using a new dataset that combines information on caste, occupation, wages, and historical evidence of subcastes …' traditional occupations, we show that caste members are still greatly overrepresented in their traditional occupations. To …

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages … newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them, and the eventual matches. We estimate the preferences for caste … frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …

find that the presence of a numerically dominant sub-caste (caste equilibrium) is associated with the selection of leaders …

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge … less so among illiterate and lower caste individuals, especially when also poor; these groups relied more on actually …

plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … children. The effects are larger for rural, poorer and low-caste families and for families with less educated mothers. However …

This paper widens the scope of the emerging literature on economic networks by assessing the role of caste networks in … exploiting the random system of reserving local council seats for caste groups, we find that caste discipline results in the … preferences of their constituents, although the constituency is narrowly defined by the sub-caste rather than the electorate as a …

Using a remarkably detailed dataset on the 2008 graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India …, we find that scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students, especially those in more selective majors, fall behind their … no evidence of discrimination against minority students in terms of wages, we find that scheduled caste and scheduled …

earlier findings, risk pooling in Indian villages no longer appears to take place more at the sub-caste level than at the …