documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to …The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …"This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

analyze the role of religion, caste and gender in the high court of Bihar. The analysis finds that the courts are not …Bihar is widely regarded as one of India's poorest and most divided states. It has also been the site of many social … representative of the Bihari population. Muslims, women and scheduled castes are consistently under-represented. The practice of …

effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …