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This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to delineate the social-psychological mechanisms of 'externalization' and 'internalization' to understand the possible consequences of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative...
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We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...
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face greater discrimination. …
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. Pervasive market and non-market discrimination against marginalized groups suggests that the significant caste disparities in …
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-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … high and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also … scale of operations. This finding is consistent with taste-based theories of discrimination and with commitments made by …
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-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially … operations. This finding is consistent with taste-based theories of discrimination and with commitments made by large firms to …
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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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There haven't been any significant improvements in terms of credit delivery to the members of self-help groups under Mission Convergence as the numbers of loans haven't increased much. There are signs of weariness in the Mission regarding the same and several meetings have been called to address...
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