India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …. India, the second most populous country in the world, is a relevant case for such analysis, not only because it has …

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

caste status and occupational segregation that has existed historically in India. We find evidence that the occupational …The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies …. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close link between castes and occupations, especially in rural …

caste status and occupational segregation that has existed historically in India. We find evidence that the occupational …The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … similar occupational convergence for ST households. -- caste ; occupational diversification ; poverty ; India …

to continue enrolment in secondary school and complete high-school. In 2008, the central government in India implemented … the legislation for 27 percent of seats to be reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBC), a disadvantaged caste-group, in …

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on …