, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major … medical units. On the other hand, Scheduled Caste representatives have a tendency to decrease the frequency of visits by …

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

India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities … salaried job by 0.6-percentage points for male Scheduled Caste members residing in the rural sector. The employment quota …

Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility. Considerable gaps between FHC households … households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …

-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 … party in power) mitigates this relationship. Finally, we examine the relationship between caste identity and actual earnings …

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

stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment … facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined drivers of discrimination: ethnic animus and socioeconomic status … have lower socioeconomic status, the two sources of discrimination compound for them. …

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 …