In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

of chronic malnourishment in India - that is, the difference in stunting incidence across caste and religious groups. A … larger than the India-Africa gap, but that children from the socio-economically dominant group, the upper caste Hindus, are …India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent of whom are chronically malnourished. The …

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. …

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

terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by … sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … the poorest and lowest-caste households have the heaviest borrowing responsibilities, managing the highest proportions of …

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two …-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes … bloc will increase the likelihood of an upper caste or OBC Hindu household practising untouchability. An increase in that …

other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. Theoretically, we distinguish between upper caste and own … educational mobility to have significantly narrowed over time with SCs doing better in upper caste and own-dominated villages …

In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … their cohorts and/or a possible alliance with the dominant elite. -- Literacy among women and low caste ; dominant landed …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate … about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste …-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high-caste …