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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 473–491.
Published: 01 November 1969
...Surinder K. Mehta Abstract An analysis of the residential distribution of caste and religious groups in Poona (India) over the past century and a half shows distinctive patterns of segregation and centralization that have largely remained unchanged despite the city’s growth and development...
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Published: 20 October 2015
Fig. 2 Probability of son achieving secondary education and above by caste. HHC = Higher Hindu Castes, OBC = Other Backward Castes, SC/ST = Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes. The shaded area represents the 95 % confidence interval
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in Local Social Inequality, Economic Inequality, and Disparities in Child Height in India
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Published: 15 July 2019
Fig. 3 Decomposition results: Fraction of the height gap between general caste children and ST, SC, and OBC children unexplained by socioeconomic variables. Estimates represent reweighting decomposition results that describe height gaps between rural general caste children and rural children
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Published: 10 June 2020
Fig. 2 Assortative mating by education, age, family SES, and caste from 1970 to 2012. Source : 2011–2012 India Human Development (IHDS).
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Arpit Shah; Sneha Thapliyal; Anish Sugathan; Vimal Mishra; Deepak Malghan Abstract India is a leading global hot spot for extreme heat waves induced by climate change. The social demography of India is centered on its caste hierarchy rooted in endogamous occupational groups. We investigate...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 729–745.
Published: 01 November 2007
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 15–35.
Published: 01 February 1989
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 371–388.
Published: 01 February 2022
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 126–134.
Published: 01 March 1967
...S. N. Agarwala Summary It is commonly believed thai widows belonging to high-caste Hindus in India do not remarry because of various social restrictions imposed on their remarriage. Though some information on widowhood and widow remarriages is available, there is need for more detailed information...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
Published: 15 July 2019
...Fig. 3 Decomposition results: Fraction of the height gap between general caste children and ST, SC, and OBC children unexplained by socioeconomic variables. Estimates represent reweighting decomposition results that describe height gaps between rural general caste children and rural children...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 245–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Sonalde Desai; Veena Kulkarni Abstract Indian society suffers from substantial inequalities in education, employment, and income based on caste and ethnicity. Compensatory or positive discrimination policies reserve 15% of the seats in institutions of higher education and state and central...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 989–1012.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Tanika Chakraborty; Sukkoo Kim Abstract This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district...
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 481–494.
Published: 01 November 1982
... fertility, even with controls for village caste composition, prior fertility, female literacy, and agricultural production. Similarly, the regression coefficient for village density is negative when the cross-sections are “pooled.” Population density apparently has an inhibiting effect on fertility...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 849–875.
Published: 24 April 2018
... for exchange, both as complements and substitutes. We apply conditional logit models to show how patterns of assortative mating among never-married and previously married persons are subject to local marriage market opportunities and constraints. The results reveal that previously married individuals “cast...
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 329–350.
Published: 01 August 1973
... or better. The five variables having a significant and direct effect on fertility, as shown by their path coefficients (p), are: duration of marriage (p= .721), spouse’s cohort (p= −.093), spouse’s age at marriage (p = .052), caste (p = −.071), and number of siblings of husband (p = .050). p] The use...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1007–1028.
Published: 22 March 2017
... may simply reflect co-occurrence with the transition to adulthood for younger grooms. We show that men entering shotgun marriages experience similar premarital wage gains as other grooms, casting doubt on the claim that anticipation of marriage drives wage increases. We conclude that the observed wage...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 891–913.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and 1969 and was followed less often by divorced women and those from polygynous households. Women with primary education and those from higher status groups were more likely to experience delayed entry. The truncated trajectory was associated with lack of economic wealth, polygynous households, and caste...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 February 1997
... that is conditional on the validity of the model, as well as evidence that casts doubt on it. Using time series of cross-sectional household surveys from Taiwan, Thailand, Britain, and the United States, we show that it is possible to force a life cycle interpretation on the data on consumption, income, and saving...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1019–1040.
Published: 29 March 2014
... indicators of family structure, socioeconomic status, and caste, as well as areal indicators of women’s empowerment and collective efficacy, also emerge as significant predictors of self-reported criminal victimization and the perceived harassment of young women. The implications of these findings...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 619–639.
Published: 01 August 2008
... and generally receive similar returns to years of schooling completed. Immigrants also receive substantial returns to acculturation, measured as age at arrival and English language skill. These results cast doubt on the strong version of segmented labor market theory, in which low-skill immigrants...
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