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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

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. …

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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

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The elite and the marginalised: an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2008

In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...

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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities: the role of employment quota

Prakash, Nishith - 2009

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

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Got water? Social divisions and access to public goods in rural India

Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011

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 …

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Is caste destiny? Occupational diversification among dalits in rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-su - 2012

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 …

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