-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self …, and how institutional change can influence it. Our main finding is that caste identity in contemporary India does shape …

self-employed in India based on educational attainments. Our results suggest that the probability of being self …-employment does not convey much information without considering how the effect varies across gender, caste, age, household size … determination of self-employment is novel for India along with the findings where college educated women show higher probability of …

This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available … India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …) and the decision of how much to spend on education, conditional on enrolling. Finally the paper also uses household fixed …

We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking … fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for … unobserved household heterogeneity. We find that a clean-break with the use of traditional fuels is less likely in rural areas …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …

households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …

development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits …