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Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2008
This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …
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The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …
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A Division of Laborers : Identity and Efficiency in India
Cassan, Guilhem; Keniston, Daniel; Kleineberg, Tatjana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Workers' social identity affects their choice of occupation, and therefore the structure and prosperity of the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482678
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Marry for What : Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463691
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Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
Munshi, Kaivan - 2009
This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463798
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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Munshi, Kaivan - 2008
Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....
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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016
knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …
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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015
determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457528
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Networks, Commitment, and Competence : Caste in Indian Local Politics
Munshi, Kaivan - 2013
This paper widens the scope of the emerging literature on economic networks by assessing the role of caste networks in Indian local politics. We test the hypothesis that these networks can discipline their members to overcome political commitment problems, enabling communities to select their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459466
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India : Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch
Robles, Verónica C. Frisancho - 2012
Using a remarkably detailed dataset on the 2008 graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460930