Affirmative Action, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India -- by Robert W. Fairlie, Saurabh Khanna, Prashant Loyalka, Gagandeep S. Sachdeva

We thank Patricia Bromley, Sapna Cheryan, Darin Christensen, Mike Hardy, Guanglei Hong, Radhika Kapoor, Phil Levine, Justin Marion, Dinsha Mistree, Kyung Park, Francisco Ramirez, Steve Raudenbush, Manisha Shah, Ajay Shenoy, Nirvikar Singh, and seminar participants at the CCPR, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, Wellesley College, UCLA, USC, Stanford University, Santa Clara University, UC Santa Cruz, Society of Labor Economists Meetings, and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research for helpful comments and suggestions. We thank Sophie Stone for research assistance. The data used in the analysis were collected from survey and administrative data from engineering colleges in 2017 and 2019 without a pre-registration plan, as part of a larger research project funded by the All India Council for Technical Education. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.