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 …

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 …

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 …

observational data identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste …

, 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 …

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 …

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 …