difficult to test as individuals self-select into neighbourhoods. Using a slum relocation programme in India that randomly … 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 …

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 … the poorest and lowest-caste households have the heaviest borrowing responsibilities, managing the highest proportions of …

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two …-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes … bloc will increase the likelihood of an upper caste or OBC Hindu household practising untouchability. An increase in that …