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This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …
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terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by … sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and …
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intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …
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"In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no …
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"This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …
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