that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India. … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that …

Black British men and women. In addition, Black British women experience the highest level of age discrimination. These … legislation may be the appropriate response, especially for racial minorities and women. Eliminating age discrimination in …The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by …

effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …

an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender … or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …

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 …

This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious … allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no … evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the child caregivers. We also weigh-in on the …

considering the weight of social identity (i.e., caste and gender). Using a panel dataset built from an original household survey … countries. This study focuses on India and examines the relationship between Big Five personality traits, cognitive skills (math …-Dalit women, suggesting that, in a rural patriarchal context, women leverage personality traits to overcome the constraints of …

-establishing interaction between individuals belonging to opposing groups. Applying this model to caste conflict in India, we find that greater … inequality among upper caste and OBC Hindus might reduce the registered rate of crimes against SCs committed by such individuals …-level annual crime and household consumption data from India over the period 2005-2021, we find robust empirical support for these …