state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter …

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

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … caste status and occupational segregation that has existed historically in India. We find evidence that the occupational …. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially in rural …

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we … construct indicators for the equality of teacher allocation and workplace segregation of teachers by gender and caste within …

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two …-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes … bloc will increase the likelihood of an upper caste or OBC Hindu household practising untouchability. An increase in that …

minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the … disadvantaged minority populations. In response to the employment quotas, individuals belonging to the Scheduled Caste group are …

Hierarchies in social identities have been found to be integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India …, caste is one such significant social identity where continued discriminatory practices towards the lower castes have … resulted in poor outcomes for them. While there is considerable work on such divergence on many economic outcomes along caste …

We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of … caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but …-days, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of own caste workers in the line increases daily individual …