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Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India …
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incidence and cost of private tutoring at different stages of schooling over the last two decades in India. As private tutoring … private tutoring is not a new phenomenon in India: a significant proportion of students at each stage of schooling took …
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In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
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attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …
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The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
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In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government policy) on the likelihood of transition from one educational level to the next. Our analysis suggests...
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Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor …
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organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India …
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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