India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities …. This paper exploits the institutional features of a federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its causal impact … that a 1-percentage point increase in the employment quota for Scheduled Castes increases the likelihood of obtaining a …

distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally … result of the status signaling nature of such consumption items. -- households ; consumption ; India …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India …The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause … ; minorities ; India …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …

other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … accorded priority by the policymakers in Bihar. -- education ; enrollment ; out-of-school ; Bihar ; India …

This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged … minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the … 1980s and 1990s. We find that, first, the employment quota policy significantly affects the occupational structure of both …

Scheduled Tribes - on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …

increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …