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Do Teachers have in-group Bias about Student Caste and Socioeconomic Status in India?

Caste
This 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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The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) as an ally for the control of the invasive yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)

Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2237-2247, April 2025.
The predatory effect of the honey‐buzzard affects the reproductive performance of Asian‐hornet colonies, decreasing the density of workers over distance and time. The foraging distances of the honey‐buzzard concentrates within the first 2000 m from nest, which supports the results observed.
Jorge Ángel Martín‐Ávila, Luisa María Díaz‐Aranda, José Manuel Fernández‐Pereira, Salvador Rebollo   +3 more
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Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism

Leiden Journal of International Law
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Rishabh Bajoria
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Exclusion and Exposure: How Social Inequality and Marginalization Shape Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in Rural Communities

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change affects all individuals, regardless of wealth, social class, or religious background, though its impacts and adaptation strategies vary. While existing literature examines climate change adaptation based on farming categories, geographic regions, and cropping systems, limited research explores how social class shapes adaptation ...
Nasir Abbas Khan, Ataharul Chowdhury, Ashfaq Ahmad Shah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caste and punishment : the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement [PDF]

Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. This paper studies how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy
Fehr, Ernst, Hoff, Karla, Kshetramade, Mayuresh   +2 more
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Reproduction of Caste Privilege in Elite Educational Institutions

Caste
This 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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MicroRNAs Associated with Caste Determination and Differentiation in a Primitively Eusocial Insect [PDF]

, 2017
In eusocial Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps), queen and worker adult castes typically arise via environmental influences. A fundamental challenge is to understand how a single genome can thereby produce alternative phenotypes. A powerful approach is to
Beckers, Matthew, Bourke, Andrew F. G., Collins, David H., Dalmay, Tamas, Mohorianu, Irina, Moulton, Vincent   +5 more
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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Timing and Trajectories: Shifts in Migration and Family Formation Trajectories in Nepal. [PDF]

J Marriage Fam
ABSTRACT Objective This study identifies distinct pathways of migration, marriage, and childbearing among young men in Nepal, a context characterized by short‐term circular migration as well as rapid social and demographic change, and examines how these transitions vary by key sociodemographic characteristics.
Labovitz E, Ng KU.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source