, 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 … medical units. On the other hand, Scheduled Caste representatives have a tendency to decrease the frequency of visits by …

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

India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities … salaried job by 0.6-percentage points for male Scheduled Caste members residing in the rural sector. The employment quota …

-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self …, and how institutional change can influence it. Our main finding is that caste identity in contemporary India does shape … party in power) mitigates this relationship. Finally, we examine the relationship between caste identity and actual earnings …

class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn …

in the literature by conducting a state-of-the-art scenario experiment with genuine American recruiters. In the … experiment, we ask recruiters to assess fictitious job applicants of various race-ethnicities but consistent social class. The …

group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

Hierarchies in social identities have been found to be integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India …, caste is one such significant social identity where continued discriminatory practices towards the lower castes have … resulted in poor outcomes for them. While there is considerable work on such divergence on many economic outcomes along caste …

Three important features of Indian labor markets enduringly coexist: rent-seeking, occupational immobility, and caste … explains these facts as an equilibrium outcome. Some people switch caste-associated occupations for an easier source of rents … facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking. …