Similar to many low- and middle-income nations, a significant proportion of Indian households rely on out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses to fund their healthcare. Such a high OOP may potentially force the most vulnerable members of society into poverty by forcing them to incur catastrophic medical...

There are about forty lakh scheduled caste people in Kerala. Most of them are poor and daily wage workers. The socio-economic backwardness of scheduled caste people is a historically determined outcome of a caste system in India. Education is the only way for them to get out of this historical...

Analyzing a large dataset of urban non-slum households, we find that homeownership tenure choice in India is significantly associated with gender, religion and caste.In particular, large households or those headed by women or with larger number of women are significantly more inclined towards...