@article{a170b361cb584b39a8a59dd0000af0fd,
title = "Affirmative action, education and gender: Evidence from India",
abstract = "This paper studies the impact of India's affirmative action policies for Scheduled Castes on educational attainment. Using a plausibly exogenous variation, I show that affirmative action increases educational attainment. The main improvements are in literacy and secondary schooling and there is only small evidence of increases in higher education. The benefits are not distributed evenly across genders: only males show an increase in education (in literacy, primary and secondary completion). Individuals at the intersection of discriminated groups (low caste and female) may not be benefiting from these policies.",
keywords = "Affirmative action, Education, Gender, Identity, India, Intersectionality, Quota, Scheduled caste",
author = "Guilhem Cassan",
note = "Funding Information: I am grateful to Gani Aldashev, Denis Cogneau, Christelle Dumas, Esther Duflo, Hemanshu Kumar, Eliana La Ferrara, Sylvie Lambert, Andreas Madestam, Marco Manacorda, Talia Brun, Annamaria Milazzo, Kaivan Munshi, Barbara Petrongolo, Rohini Somanathan, Vincenzo Verardi and Yanos Zylberberg, as well as participants in the seminar and conferences in which I presented this paper. Marion Leturcq's and Lore Vandewalle's comments on an earlier draft vastly improved this paper. I am indebted to Julien Grenet for his help in the data collection, and to Ashwini Natraj, with whom I started this project. I thank Rohini Pande for having shared her data. I thank Fred Arnold at DHS for having helped me understand the coding of jati names in the DHS data. This paper is produced as part of the project “Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries: A micro-empirical approach” (AMID), a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) funded by the European Commission . Funding from the CEPREMAP and from MIS-FNRS is gratefully acknowledged. This research used resources of the “Plateforme Technologique de Calcul Intensif (PTCI)” ( http://www.ptci.unamur.be ) located at the University of Namur, Belgium, which is supported by the gs4:F.R.S. - FNRS under the convention No. 2.4520.11 . The PTCI is member of the “Consortium des Equipements de Calcul Intensif (CECI)” ( http://www.ceci-hpc.be ). All remaining errors are mine. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Elsevier B.V.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.10.001",
language = "English",
volume = "136",
pages = "51--70",
journal = "Journal of Development Economics",
issn = "0304-3878",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}
