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representation of the low castes in India appears to affect the declaration of crime only for two very specific crime categories …
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In India, caste shapes access to a variety of resources and outcomes mainly through its influence on inter …
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structures affect minority welfare. We examine this question in the context of India, which has a long-standing system of … consumption of subsidized food grains from India's largest safety net program by 4%. Highlighting the importance of political …-based parties; in contrast, legislators elected through the electoral quotas but representing India's other major mainstream parties …
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India. We also run a survey and conduct lab-in-the-field experiments to measure patients' attitudes towards different caste … discrimination has important implications for the use of Affirmative Action policies in India …
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We estimate the impacts of mandated political reservation for minorities on household credit access and borrowing behavior. To identify causal effects, we exploit the exogenous state-time variation in the allocation of constituencies (electoral districts) to the two reserved minority groups in...
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occupational mobility in India, using a nationally representative data-set the India Human Development Survey which contains … belonging to socially disadvantaged communities in India lagging behind in social progress. Multigenerational mobility for …
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occupational mobility in India, using a nationally representative data set, the Indian Human Development Survey, which contains … belonging to socially disadvantaged communities in India lagging behind in social progress. Multigenerational mobility for …
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India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, we investigate whether changes in relative …
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Over the last decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of hiring discrimination toward ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious job applications. Despite increasing efforts to discover why ethnic minorities experience hiring penalties, the academic world has not...
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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