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

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 …

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 …

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 …

; household enterprises ; India …

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

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

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers … in India in contributing to the observed decline. Exploiting regional variation in changes in minimum wages over time in …. Counterfactual wage estimations show that the increase in minimum wages explains 26% of the decline in wage inequality in India …

other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. Theoretically, we distinguish between upper caste and own …