that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India …Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …

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 …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

, 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 …