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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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-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 …
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Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India. …
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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 …
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Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...
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In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the names used for ethnic minorities in various...
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experimentally test this prediction offered by Becker (1971) in the context of caste in India, with management students (potential …
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context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence of Affirmative Action policies remain …
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In labor markets where disadvantaged students are discriminated against, meritbased college scholarships targeting these students could convey two opposing signals to employers. There is a positive signal reflecting the candidate's cognitive ability (talented in high-school and able to maintain...
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-development spending ; India …
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