intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …This study is positioned in two strands of literature-intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure … (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By …

that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India. … female doctors suffer. Further, we find that gender discrimination is greater for lower caste doctors, who typically suffer … consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination. Labor market experience cannot easily overcome the discrimination that …

Using an audit experiment carried out on of India’s largest real estate websites, we document striking variations … between landlords' treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes, and Muslims. We find strong … evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in terms of probability of being contacted and the number of …

This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …

poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest …) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by …

nature of political reservations for women in India to show that a policy designed along one identity dimension (gender …) alters the distribution of the benefits of this policy along another one (caste). We propose an important variation in gender … norms across caste groups as a plausible mechanism. …