documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the …. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes Indians' identities, and …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … group by education, gender, and geographical location. …

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …