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that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India. … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that …
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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 …
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"In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …
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