Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses …

facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking. …

facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

In this study we use data from rural India to examine the impact of the birth of a boy relative to the birth of a girl …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

We establish some new interesting stylized facts on the changes in boy versus girl nutritional status in India during …-South gradient in gender inequality in India, we find that changes in nutritional status appear to be much more similar between …

this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a … unique district-level panel data-set from 17 major states of India for the period 1992-2002 that we compile highlight a … for the findings. -- private school growth ; universal literacy ; gender gap ; Millennium Development Goals ; India, Asia …

attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that … percent to 45 percent of the observed schooling gap. -- gender inequality ; India ; religion ; social disparity …