knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge … less so among illiterate and lower caste individuals, especially when also poor; these groups relied more on actually …

graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in … college performance of minority and non-minority students as they progress through college, we find that scheduled caste and … minority students in terms of wages, we find that scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students are more likely to get worse …

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

find that the presence of a numerically dominant sub-caste (caste equilibrium) is associated with the selection of leaders …

plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … children. The effects are larger for rural, poorer and low-caste families and for families with less educated mothers. However …

This paper widens the scope of the emerging literature on economic networks by assessing the role of caste networks in … exploiting the random system of reserving local council seats for caste groups, we find that caste discipline results in the … preferences of their constituents, although the constituency is narrowly defined by the sub-caste rather than the electorate as a …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages … newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them, and the eventual matches. We estimate the preferences for caste … frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage …

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …