poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest …) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find …

intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …This study is positioned in two strands of literature-intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure … (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By …

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 … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …

Using an audit experiment carried out on of India's largest real estate websites, we document striking variations … between landlords' treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes, and Muslims. We find strong … evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in terms of probability of being contacted and the number of …

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

for its rights. Gender means elimination of inequality and promote equality between women and men in all areas of social …After the World War II, especially in the early fifties there is an expansion of gender rights. Women are massively … life. If we want to achieve gender equality as a whole, it is inevitable to achieve an economic consolidation of the two …

-group vs. out-group and stereotypical discrimination, which are stronger for lenders who reside where historical cultural … discrimination-unconscious biased beliefs about borrowers' quality-can explain our results better than taste-based discrimination. …

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-religion …

Gender Pay Gap im Bruttostundenverdienst von 30 Prozent. Werden geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in relevanten … Verdienstdeterminanten herausgerechnet, verbleibt eine Verdienstlücke von elf Prozent. Eine hohe Erklärungskraft für den Gender Pay Gap …

Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and … 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …