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 …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high-caste … high and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On average low-caste applicants need to send 20 percent more resumes than high-caste … and low-caste applicants are not entirely due to statistical discrimination. High-caste applicants are also differentially …

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 … face greater discrimination. …

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 …

of stigma associated with caste-based affirmative action (AA). Despite a significant gap in entry scores at admission to …This paper presents the results of an attitude survey administered to university students in India that attempts to … evaluate externalization and attitudes towards AA, there are clear and significant differences between caste groups that reveal …

In recent decades, researchers have found compelling evidence of discrimination in the labor and housing market toward … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …

The use of anonymous job applications to combat hiring discrimination is gaining attention and interest. Results from a …