Guilhem Cassan
Affirmative action, education and gender: Evidence from India
University of Namur
paper studies impact indias affirmative action policies scheduled castes educational attainment using plausibly exogenous variation show affirmative action increases educational attainment main improvements literacy secondary schooling small evidence increases higher education benefits distributed evenly across genders males show increase education literacy primary secondary completion individuals intersection discriminated groups low caste female may benefiting policies