We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … its population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey …

Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates …

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Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households … housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged …

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 …

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

use laboratory experiments to study the potential role of stereotype threat on the response of men and women to … competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against … women in one treatment. In additional treatments we, respectively, reinforce this stereotype threat and induce a stereotype …

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