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access to education notwithstanding, gender discrimination still persists in India and lot more needs to be done in the field …
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We investigate the presence of gender bias in student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores with a natural field experiment in India. We employ a novel experimental design, randomly assigning 504 economics students to an identical audiovisual class taught either in a female or male voice. We find...
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. Pervasive market and non-market discrimination against marginalized groups suggests that the significant caste disparities in …
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The purpose of this research is to address the lack of a region-wide view of widow discrimination in India, the home of … widow discrimination does not prevail across the nation. That is, this research did not deny the existence of traditional … widow discrimination in some areas, but demonstrated that this phenomenon does not represent the whole nation if we focus on …
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consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … from caste discrimination. Given the increasing share of professionals from a lower caste background, our results suggest …
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discrimination against women as sources of knowledge---epistemic discrimination---in ordinary daily life in rural north India. The …
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This paper identifies a new reason for giving preferences to the disadvantaged using a model of contests. There are two forces at work: the effort effect working against giving preferences and the selection effect working for them. When education is costly and easy to obtain (as in the U.S.),...
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The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to...
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In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...
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The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934753