India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …, as well as across states and urban-rural areas. In so doing, we build upon Egger et al. (2020)'s lockdown readiness index … pronounced horizontal inequality, but also because it adopted an especially stringent lockdown policy. Our analysis illustrates …

, we investigate the probability of female employment during the lockdown period between March and May 2020. Based on … marginalized castes, the probability of joblessness is about 10%. Lockdown is expected to have raised the economic inequality by …

market shocks on different caste groups. We find that while all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown …