experiments in India. Both show that respondents are more tolerant of teacher absenteeism when schools serve low- rather than high-caste … and services. On the one hand, it pushes beyond purely economic inequality to include status inequality between population …: the absenteeism of service providers. We provide experimental evidence that in a situation of status inequality between …

India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …. India, the second most populous country in the world, is a relevant case for such analysis, not only because it has …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major … medical units. On the other hand, Scheduled Caste representatives have a tendency to decrease the frequency of visits by …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

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 …

India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities … salaried job by 0.6-percentage points for male Scheduled Caste members residing in the rural sector. The employment quota …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

-employment in India, and examine how these are shaped by social identity, namely, caste. We also investigate if institutional change … between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …. Further, the employment guarantee scheme alters self-perceptions differentially for different caste groups, but in more …

-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 …