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Workfare and forest cover: The case of NREGS in India
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the world's largest workfare program, on forest cover as proxied by vegetation density. We estimate null effects on vegetation for the overall sample as well as for the subsample where we are best able to isolate changes in forest cover, but we find ...
Shourish Chakravarty +3 more
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Laying the Ground for a Critical Psychology of Caste
CasteThe psychological underpinnings and processes of caste have remained obscure. This special issue of Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion focusing on Caste and Psychology is an initial contribution that lays the ground for developing a critical ...
Yashpal Jogdand
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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An Integrated Approach to Caste in Sri Lanka
CasteIn this article I argue that Sri Lankan caste research has been inhibited by the widespread popular assumption that caste manifests in Sri Lanka in the form of parallel and incommensurate ethnoreligious caste systems.
Dominic Esler
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Reproducing Elite Lives: Women in Aggarwal Family Businesses
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2017 This article explores the social reproductive roles performed by elite “upper”-caste Aggarwal women in family businesses in Delhi. With the substantialization of caste, there is an increase in heterogeneities within caste groups.
Ujithra Ponniah
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Noncanonical Nucleotides in the Genome Around the Maternal‐Zygotic Transition
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.In this paper, Kazzazi et al. provide a comprehensive review of the dynamics of nonconventional nucleotides in the genome during early developmental stages, hypothesizing a potential role for these nucleotides in the activation of the zygotic genome. ABSTRACT From the very moment of fertilization and throughout development, the cells of animal embryos ...
Latifa Kazzazy +7 more
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FACES, 1998 La obligación de asociarse a determinados colegios que nuclean a diversos profesionales ha sido y es cuestionada hoy como un requisito legal que vulnera el libre ejercicio de la actividad profesional, máxime si se tiene en cuenta que el propio Estado es
Ricardo Tirigall Casté
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Do Teachers have in-group Bias about Student Caste and Socioeconomic Status in India?
CasteThis article studies the extent of teacher’s in-group bias in occupational expectations and grading on the basis of a student’s caste and socioeconomic status.
Shradha Parashari
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Volunteers have been involved in nature observations for decades through citizen science initiatives, providing large data sets as well as problem identification that allow a more complete understanding of many natural phenomena. Although communication is a core component in citizen science, the key factors that determine its effectiveness in ...
Kristiina Gibson +18 more
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Reproduction of Caste Privilege in Elite Educational Institutions
CasteThis article, embedded in empirical work in two colleges of a central university in Delhi, focuses on how caste privilege is legitimized and reproduced within elite higher educational institutions.
Ravneet Param
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