poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest …) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find …

intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …This study is positioned in two strands of literature-intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure … (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By …

This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …

This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …

poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest …) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find …

Purpose – The issue of discrimination in Afghanistan is pervasive, and the present report focuses on gender … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the measures taken to eliminate gender discrimination in employment since the American … insight into gender discrimination in employment in the run up to the ten‐year anniversary of the ousting of the repressive …

In March 2012, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the Subregional Workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia … to share experiences and enhance lateral learning among ADB and its project partners on addressing gender and social … inclusion issues in urban development projects in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Participants …

sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by …