This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

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 …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …

-development spending ; India …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …. -- India ; social groups ; inequality ; quantile regression decomposition …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential … health, indeed, enough to reverse the SES gradient that is commonly observed. -- Religion ; caste ; gender ; child survival …

group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning … rigidity over time and across regions of India. -- labor-to-land ratio ; population ; involuntary labor ; immobility ; value of …

-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 …