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 …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …