an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and … even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender … or racial diversity, is less likely to be hired even when the other agent has no preference over private, non …

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. …

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

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 …

issue. This study explores how caste disparities in small-firm entrepreneurship impact on firm performance in India …. Pervasive market and non-market discrimination against marginalized groups suggests that the significant caste disparities in … observables in explaining the caste gap in productivity. This implies that even with improvements in firm attributes for Scheduled …