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The Impact Of Employment Quotas On The Economic Lives Of Disadvantaged Minorities In India, Nishith Prakash
The Impact Of Employment Quotas On The Economic Lives Of Disadvantaged Minorities In India, Nishith Prakash
Nishith Prakash
Using nationally representative household data from India, I estimate the effects of the world’s biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities on their labor market and children’s outcomes. In India, public sector jobs are set aside for scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs), the two principal disadvantaged minority groups in India. To identify the causal effect of these job reservations, I take advantage of the fact that the share of jobs set aside is based on a strict policy rule stipulated by the Indian Constitution. The policy rule requires that the shares of public sector …
Do Means-Tested School Lunch Subsidies Change Children's Weekly Consumption Patterns?, Nishith Prakash, Larry Howard
Do Means-Tested School Lunch Subsidies Change Children's Weekly Consumption Patterns?, Nishith Prakash, Larry Howard
Nishith Prakash
This article examines whether participation in the means-tested component of the National School Lunch Program changes the dietary patterns of children. Endogeneity bias arising from the incentive effects of lunch subsidies on program take-up is addressed using an identification trategy that relies on variation across school districts in the financing of and demand for school meal programs. Analyzing data on 5th grade public elementary school children observed in spring 2004, we find significant changes in the weekly consumption patterns of subsidized children relative to children that do not receive a means-test subsidy. Our estimates indicate increases in consumption for items …
Does Employment Quota Explain Occupational Choice Among Disadvantaged Groups? A Natural Experiment From India, Larry Howard, Nishith Prakash
Does Employment Quota Explain Occupational Choice Among Disadvantaged Groups? A Natural Experiment From India, Larry Howard, Nishith Prakash
Nishith Prakash
This paper examines the effect of a federally-mandated public sector employment quota policy for minorities on their occupational choice. We utilize multiple logit models to estimate the effect of the policy on the choice between a high, middle, or low-skill public sector occupation during the 1980s and 1990s. The main findings are, first, the policy has a significant effect on the choice of occupation for both groups. The policy increases the probability of the scheduled caste group choosing high-skill occupations and decreases the probability of choosing middle-skill occupations. In contrast, the policy decreases the probability of the scheduled tribe group …