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 …

cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …

that the positive income shock is followed by a decrease in unemployment in all economic activity groups during the initial … periods except the unemployment in the Electricity sector and the Community Services sector. A positive money shock decreases … positive interbank interest rate shock increases the unemployment in all economic activities at the initial levels but derives …

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