state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

quota policy in village elections in a large state in India to test these claims. Consistently, we find that electoral …

gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage …

This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …

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 …

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