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 …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … caste status and occupational segregation that has existed historically in India. We find evidence that the occupational …. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially in rural …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … caste status and occupational segregation that has existed historically in India. We find evidence that the occupational …. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially in rural …

Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses … significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the …

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

an under-explored dimension; the allocation of public sector teachers in India. Using a register database for 2006-12, we … construct indicators for the equality of teacher allocation and workplace segregation of teachers by gender and caste within …

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 …

-employment in India, and examine how these are shaped by social identity, namely, caste. We also investigate if institutional change … between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …. Further, the employment guarantee scheme alters self-perceptions differentially for different caste groups, but in more …