In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

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 …

An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain … father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched … data, we study the extent of intergenerational mobility in educational attainment in India since 1940s and provide an …

India. This paper provides evidence on the consequences of the expansion of prenatal ultrasound use on sex-selection. We … exploit state-by-cohort variation in ultrasound use in India as a unique quasi-experiment. We find that sex-selective abortion …-selection in India. …

Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …; however, people with disabilities in India are subject to multiple disadvantages. This paper focuses on state-level variations …

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

This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …

attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …

and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. …

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate …