documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to …The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to …The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …

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-religion …

an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender … or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …

an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender … or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …

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 …

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

This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious … allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no … evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the child caregivers. We also weigh-in on the …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …The champions of financial inclusion regret women's lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by …