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

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …

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 …

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases …

pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures—and the response to those exposures differ across urban and rural …, we present new evidence on urban-rural differences in air quality and population sensitivity to air pollution, leveraging …

I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …