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Inequality of opportunity in India [PDF]

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The paper associates inequality of opportunities with outcome differences that can be accounted by pre-determined circumstances which lie beyond the control of an individual, such as parental education, parental occupation, caste, religion and place of ...
Singh, Ashish
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Delinking Social Identity From Rural‐Urban Stereotypes: The Labor Market Effects of Abolishing Agricultural Hukou in China

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Delinking social identity from entrenched stereotypes can reshape economic behavior. This study exploits China's hukou reform, which abolished the agricultural‐nonagricultural distinction and weakened the institutional foundation of rural‐urban identity, to assess its labor market impacts.
Ye Jiang, Yue Yin
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Telecom Expansion and Internal Migrants in Indian Cities

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates the impact of mobile phone service expansion on migration to and between cities of India during 2001–2011. We show that the number of cross‐state migrants living in urban areas of India increased significantly due to telecommunications infrastructure growth. The increased migration reflects better labor and marriage market
Arnab Dutta, Gregory Randolph
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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments [PDF]

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Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency ...
Kaivan Munshi, Mark Rosenzweig
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Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on semistructured interviews with 14 CISs, the study highlights that pre‐migration socialization in China influences how CISs perceive and interpret their ...
Gengqi Xiao, Hailing Wang, Jing Yu
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Untouchability And Public Infrastructure [PDF]

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Caste rules prohibit the sharing of water between castes as a contact made by an untouchable with water ritually taints the source. Despite untouchability practices being outlawed by the Constitution of India, they are still vigorous and violently ...
Catherine Bros, Mathieu Couttenier
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