distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally … spend eleven percent less, after controlling for differences in permanent income and demographic composition of households …

distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. Using nationally … populations. We find that the higher spending of OBC households on visible consumption is diverted from education spending, while … Muslim households divert spending from visible consumption and education towards greater food spending. Additionally, we find …

distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally … spend eleven percent less, after controlling for differences in permanent income and demographic composition of households …

using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …

using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …