that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high-caste … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to …The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its … Housing survey, which allows for a detailed identification of the channels through which diversity operates. Differentiating …

We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially … identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for statistical discrimination. Further …, affiliation to the same religion may enhance group identity, or affiliation irrespective of creed may lend social identity, and in …

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 …

attach their picture to their résumé. High levels of discrimination were found particularly against the migrant wearing a …

target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap …

representative sample of women in the United States. Religious affiliation is found to have a significant impact on years of …