India - presents a case study of Ludhiana discussing the causes, implications and benefits of migration, migrant worker … profile by age group, educational level, marital status, caste, occupational structure and land ownership, man and woman …

India - based on two household surveys, examines socio-economic and demographic aspects influencing fertility and population … growth such as income, education, woman worker labour force participation, land ownership, family status, caste, mortality …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper assessing the importance of social class, caste and land ownership variables in economic … analysis of rural economies, comprising a case study of Bihar, India - includes a brief literature survey; based on a 1981 …

fertility among the rural population of India - presents data derived from a sample survey of 11 villages in which different …

resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …

occupational mobility for people in rural India is migration to urban or semi-urban areas. At the same time, since 69 per cent of … India's population still lives in villages, it is important to examine and understand the level of intergenerational … India using data from household surveys in ten villages in different agro-ecological regions of the country. The mobility …

health knowledge and caste and religion and a number of important mediating factors in India, estimating causal impacts … large caste and religion health knowledge gap in the context of proper treatment of diarrhea in children favoring high caste … women relative to low caste and Muslim women. We also provide evidence that while observed individual characteristics such …

This paper evaluates how caste influences economic comparisons in India. Using happiness data from an original panel … survey, we find that both within-caste comparisons and between-caste comparisons reduce well-being. Between-caste comparisons … reduce well-being three times more than within-caste comparisons. In absolute terms, an increase in rival caste expenditures …