significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the … face greater discrimination. …

and services. On the one hand, it pushes beyond purely economic inequality to include status inequality between population …: the absenteeism of service providers. We provide experimental evidence that in a situation of status inequality between … perceived to belong to low-status ethnic groups. In particular, we present results from two complementary randomized survey …

-employment in India, and examine how these are shaped by social identity, namely, caste. We also investigate if institutional change … between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …. Further, the employment guarantee scheme alters self-perceptions differentially for different caste groups, but in more …

-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high-caste … high and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also …Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high-caste … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially …Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

punish norm violations that hurt members of their own caste, suggesting a cultural difference across caste status in the … hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals' willingness to punish violations of a cooperation norm. Although we control … for individual wealth, education, and political participation, low caste individuals exhibit a much lower willingness to …

analysis of these indexes is then extended to consider the role of caste, class, regionalism and level of development to reveal …

punish norm violations that hurt members of their own caste, suggesting a cultural difference across caste status in the … hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals' willingness to punish violations of a cooperation norm. Although we control … for individual wealth, education, and political participation, low caste individuals exhibit a much lower willingness to …