would choose when behind a veil of ignorance. The institutional background for my study is India, where low castes have been …, low-caste people are denied access to education and public-sector jobs, and also when, because of compensating … discrimination, it is high-caste people who are correspondingly denied equal access. A benchmark case with neither adverse nor …

Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses … significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the …

The persistent gap in economic outcomes between the upper and lower caste groups in India is typically explained … through differences in endowments and the presence of discrimination. While there is sizable literature that examines caste … gaps in physical and intellectual human capital, this paper contributes to a small literature that evaluates caste …

Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the … inequalities in India by looking within these groupings, and studying differences between the individual jatis that comprise these … numerically larger Scheduled Caste communities witnessed greater improvements in educational levels compared to smaller ones, this …

This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to … 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 …

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

of chronic malnourishment in India - that is, the difference in stunting incidence across caste and religious groups. A … larger than the India-Africa gap, but that children from the socio-economically dominant group, the upper caste Hindus, are …India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent of whom are chronically malnourished. The …