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Ashish Singh
Researcher at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Publications - 57
Citations - 806
Ashish Singh is an academic researcher from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The author has contributed to research in topics: Inequality & Caste. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 54 publications receiving 681 citations. Previous affiliations of Ashish Singh include Indian Institutes of Technology & Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
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The Effect of Family Background on Individual Wages and an Examination of Inequality of Opportunity in India
TL;DR: The authors explored the role of family background in contributing to overall economic inequality in Indian society, and found that the opportunity share of inequality in wage earnings in India ranges from 11% to 17% across different age based cohorts.
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Household Headship and Academic Skills of Indian Children: A Special Focus on Gender Disparities
TL;DR: This paper found that children from female headed households either perform better or similar, but never worse than those from male headed households, while household fixed effect analysis revealed no gender disparity in academic scores of children belonging to female-headed households, a case not true for children from male-head households.
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Awareness about Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: Some Evidence from the Northern Parts of West Bengal, India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take up the issues related to the awareness about an ambitious welfare programme targeting the rural population of India, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
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Are Daughters Like Mothers: Evidence on Intergenerational Educational Mobility Among Young Females in India
Akanksha Choudhary,Ashish Singh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined intergenerational educational mobility for young females (vis-a-vis their mothers) in India, taking data from the India Youth Survey: Situation and Needs.
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Increasing Compulsion to Work for Wages: Old Age Labor Participation and Supply in India over the Past Two Decades
Ashish Singh,Upasak Das +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the changes in determinants of wage labor participation and supply of the elderly (60 years and above) over the last two decades in India and found that elders from poorer and weaker sections have higher compulsion for labor participation in both rural and urban areas and more so in 2009-10.