Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India
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In this episode, Shruti speaks with Ashwini Deshpande\\xa0about caste discrimination in labor markets, the reservation system and its critiques, education of women, how endogamy perpetuates caste, Bollywood films and much more. Deshpande is a professor of economics and the founding director of the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis at Ashoka University. Her Ph.D. and early publications have been on the international debt crisis of the 1980s. Subsequently, she has been working on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a focus on caste and gender in India. She is the author of \\u201cThe Grammar of Caste: Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India\\u201d and \\u201cAffirmative Action in India.\\u201d
Recorded July 7th, 2022
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