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. …

reputable arranged-marriage market that is prone to strong caste-status based discrimination. We place newspaper advertisements … of lower-caste potential grooms by systematically varying their caste and monthly income and analyze the corresponding … response of higher-caste females. The substantive finding is that despite the persuasive evidence of discrimination …

-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self …, and how institutional change can influence it. Our main finding is that caste identity in contemporary India does shape … party in power) mitigates this relationship. Finally, we examine the relationship between caste identity and actual earnings …

between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income …-employment in India, and examine how these are shaped by social identity, namely, caste. We also investigate if institutional change …

Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, we employ two methodologies to estimate the earnings … distribution face greater discrimination, as compared to those at the higher end. Thus, we find strong evidence of a "sticky floor …

experiments in India. Both show that respondents are more tolerant of teacher absenteeism when schools serve low- rather than high-caste …

-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in India implemented from 2008, which mandates a 27 percent seats to be reserved for …

-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self …, and how institutional change can influence it. Our main finding is that caste identity in contemporary India does shape … party in power) mitigates this relationship. Finally, we examine the relationship between caste identity and actual earnings …

In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low 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 …