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

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind …

aggregate economy. We study this phenomenon in a setting where work and identity are particularly intertwined: the Indian caste … system. Using a new dataset that combines information on caste, occupation, wages, and historical evidence of subcastes …' traditional occupations, we show that caste members are still greatly overrepresented in their traditional occupations. To …

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages … among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major … newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them, and the eventual matches. We estimate the preferences for caste …

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 …