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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes
Girard, Victoire - 2016
Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by … the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of … mandated political representation of the low castes to examine its effect on crime reports by these people. Mandated political …
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Social mobility and inequality between groups
Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020
groups in many societies. Group-based discrimination, among other factors, contributes. The paper further explores empirical …
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Why does caste still influence access to agricultural credit?
Kumar, Sunil Mitra - 2016
-generational prosperity, but also the linked phenomenon of discrimination. This paper examines whether caste-based differences in access to … formal agricultural loans reflect discrimination in banks' lending. We find, first, that there are significant caste …
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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014
The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...
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Ethnic inequality and community activities in Indonesia
Muller, Christophe - 2016
For the first time in Indonesia, we jointly analyse several economic statistics and ethnic diversity indicators at national and local levels. Nationally, we find very high levels of economic inequality, measured from household asset values or consumption expenditure. In contrast, the levels of...
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Legal empowerment and group-based inequality
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...
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Riots and social capital in urban India
Aghajanian, Alia; Justino, Patricia; Tranchant, Jean-Pierre - 2020
This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect model with lagged covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on...
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The social and political consequences of wartime sexual violence: New evidence from list experiments in three conflict-affected populations
Koos, Carlo; Traunmüller, Richard - 2022
Wartime sexual violence is widespread across conflict zones and thought to leave a disastrous legacy for survivors, communities, and nations. Yet, systematic studies on i) the prevalence and ii) the social and political consequences of wartime sexual violence are fraught with severe data...
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Rebel governance and political participation
Steele, Abbey; Weintraub, Michael - 2022
Rebels, militias, and criminal groups all govern civilians. Governing strategies adopted by armed groups during civil war likely influence citizens' post-conflict political participation, with consequences for democratic politics. We theorize that an armed group's position relative to the state...
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Climate justice for persons with disability: Few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much
Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023
Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is responded to by rules that afford more primary goods, such...
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