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caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but …-days, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of own caste workers in the line increases daily individual … when the production line has a more homogeneous caste composition. Production externalities that impose financial costs due …
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caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but …-days, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of own caste workers in the line increases daily individual … when the production line has a more homogeneous caste composition. Production externalities that impose financial costs due …
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The aim of this paper is to describe the primary changes and development that outlined the history of Colonial Punjab and to narrate grassroots and provincial perspectives on the changes. I examine with a blend of grassroots and provincial perspectives by contextualizing actual historical events...
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This article grapples with the causes of India's microfinance crisis. By contrasting Bangladesh's highly successful Grameen model with the allegedly “universalizable” version of India's SKS Microfinance (which precipitated the crisis), trust or social capital is isolated — not just...
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Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the … numerically larger Scheduled Caste communities witnessed greater improvements in educational levels compared to smaller ones, this …
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of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative action (AA). Despite a significant gap in entry scores at admission to … evaluate externalization and attitudes towards AA, there are clear and significant differences between caste groups that reveal …
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India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …
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assigned neighbours, I examine the effects of exposure to other-caste neighbours on trust and attitudes towards members of … corroborating the contact hypothesis. Exposure to more neighbours of other castes increases inter-caste trust, support for inter-caste … marriage, and the belief that caste injustice is growing. I explore the role of friendships in facilitating these favourable …
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poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … that training participants from the most socially disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC …) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants …
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