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Caste, Courts and Business
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani; … - 2022
We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
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Social Class and Undergraduate Degree Subject in the UK
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2006
Although past research has found strong social class effects on the decision to undertake higher education in the UK, there is only sparse empirical work investigating social class influences on the choice of degree subject at the undergraduate level. Using Universities' Statistical Record data...
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The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
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 …
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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya - 2014
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …
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Caste and Punishment : The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
Hoff, Karla - 2009
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...
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Touch Thee Not : Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2019
We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12 …
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The Relationship between Status and Happiness : Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India
Van Landeghem, Bert - 2017
observational data identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste …
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth - 2014
, 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 …
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The Impact of Caste : A Missing Link in the Literature on Stunting in India
Ramachandran, Rajesh; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2021
India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent of whom are chronically malnourished. The … associated high prevalence of stunting has generated a stream of research explaining why chronic malnourishment in India is … of chronic malnourishment in India – that is, the difference in stunting incidence across caste and religious groups. A …
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