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

; household enterprises ; India …

) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …

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

occupational mobility in India, using a nationally representative data-set the India Human Development Survey which contains … belonging to socially disadvantaged communities in India lagging behind in social progress. Multigenerational mobility for …

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …