Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the … numerically larger Scheduled Caste communities witnessed greater improvements in educational levels compared to smaller ones, this …

of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative action (AA). Despite a significant gap in entry scores at admission to … evaluate externalization and attitudes towards AA, there are clear and significant differences between caste groups that reveal …

India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …

assigned neighbours, I examine the effects of exposure to other-caste neighbours on trust and attitudes towards members of … corroborating the contact hypothesis. Exposure to more neighbours of other castes increases inter-caste trust, support for inter-caste … marriage, and the belief that caste injustice is growing. I explore the role of friendships in facilitating these favourable …

the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up … payments to avoid job offers that conflict with their caste identity, regardless of whether these decisions are made in private. …

This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning … class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The …-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal …