This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and decomposition methods have been used and compared. First, we … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca …

growth in school enrolment and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to explore the extent to which enrolment and … parameters are stable. The analysis nevertheless performs illustrative simulations relevant to the question of whether India will … simulations suggest that India will achieve universal attendance, but that primary school completion rates will not exhibit much …

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are … for an understanding of the relationship between caste and gender, and for the targeting of anti-poverty programmes. … grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste we find patterns that are consistent with existing …

the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to …

poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …

intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by … the poorest and lowest-caste households have the heaviest borrowing responsibilities, managing the highest proportions of …

This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … caste in this context. We find evidence of cumulative disadvantages for females of SC and OBC groups, but lower gender …

wisdom, the lower caste individuals enjoy a larger positive effect on salaried employment, despite their unfavorable labor …Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey …, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … mechanisms suggests that the labor market returns for low-status women (relative to men) and high-status men (relative to women …