Tag Search: “social identity”
Preferences or expectations? Understanding the gender gap in choice of college majors
A multidisciplinary literature – mostly focused on the US – shows that choice of majors among college students is gendered, and females are particularly under-represented in math-intensive fields. Bas...
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Aparajita Dasgupta
Anisha Sharma
23 October, 2020
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Does political reservation work, and for whom?
Does political reservation undermine or promote development, and for whom? This article presents an analysis of India’s Scheduled Areas, which reserve political office for the historically disadvantag...
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Saad Gulzar
Nicholas Haas
Ben Pasquale
11 August, 2020
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Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste
B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-leve...
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Naveen Bharathi
Deepak Malghan
Sumit Mishra
Andaleeb Rahman
01 July, 2020
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Rethinking ‘mobile camps’ for cancer screening
Despite public-private initiatives to increase preventive screening for cancer through mobile camps, mortality rates on account of the disease continue to be high. In this post, Ghosh and Sekar discus...
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Samayita Ghosh
Preethiya Sekar
28 May, 2020
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EWS reservation in higher education: Affirmative action or vote bank politics?
The Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019, provides for 10% reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) in higher educational institutions within the general category. In this post, Devi...
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Devika Malhotra Sharma
11 September, 2019
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Wealth inequality, class, and caste in India: 1961-2012
The level of wealth inequality in India is close to that of some highly unequal countries in the world. This article assesses the long-term evolution of wealth inequality in the country for the period...
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Nitin Kumar Bharti
28 June, 2019
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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: District-level estimates from Census 2011
The 2011 Indian Census data show a higher growth rate of Muslim population compared to the Hindu population. This article provides an in-depth picture of Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials at the di...
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Saswata Ghosh
27 March, 2019
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How leader identity impacts group coordination
In principle, leaders can facilitate group coordination towards a common goal but in diverse societies, their effectiveness may depend upon their social identity, and how citizens react to leader iden...
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Irma Clots-Figueras
Sonia Bhalotra
Lakshmi Iyer
Joseph Vecci
22 October, 2018
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Community networks and the growth of private enterprise in China
China has witnessed the same degree of industrialisation in three decades as Europe did in two centuries – without the preconditions that are generally believed to be necessary for economic developmen...
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Ruochen Dai
Dilip Mookherjee
Kaivan Munshi
Xiaobo Zhang
31 August, 2018
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Enfranchising your own? Polling officer identity and electoral outcomes
The provision of free and fair elections is a public service critical to maintaining accountability and responsiveness of elected officials. This article examines the administration of polling station...
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Yusuf Neggers
20 June, 2018
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Does your cultural background affect your credit profile?
In many economies – both developed and developing – economic transactions tend to cluster by ethnic or social group. Using data from a large, state-owned bank in India, this article presents evidence ...
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Raymond Fisman
04 May, 2018
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Rags to riches? Understanding social mobility in India
To what extent is an individual’s status in society determined by the position of his or her parents? Analysing data from the Indian Human Development Survey, 2011-2012, this column finds that the pro...
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Vegard Iversen
Anirudh Krishna
Kunal Sen
13 November, 2017
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