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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-15894-6
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Economics
Body granting the degree
Michigan State University
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Through my dissertation, I aim to uncover the processes that govern the relationship between social or ethnic identity and economic outcomes such as employment and education. I focus in particular on studying outcomes for Muslim women in India who have remained on the fringes of economic enquiry. A majority of the literature on economic exclusion in India has focused on caste based discrimination, which is warranted given the acute poverty and deprivation faced by lower caste communities in the country. However, despite being comparable on measures of economic, social and educational deprivation, Indian Muslims have remained absent from the development discourse in the country. I hope my research will contribute to filling this lacuna in the literature.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Labor economics; Economic theory
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Subject Term
Social sciences;Bangladesh;Caste;Employment;Gender;India;Islam