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Our cities are replicating rural inequality patterns

Public services are much less likely to be found in areas with high numbers of marginalised members, our studies found.

We found India’s cities segregated on the basis of both caste and religion, sometimes about as much as racial segregation in the United States (US).(Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
Published on Jun 19, 2023 09:55 PM IST

India’s Covid-19 fatality rates — low in south India, high among migrants

In a new study, the writers set out to use the best available data to measure the infection fatality rate from Covid-19 and how it varied across the country. Notably, most popular claims about India’s mortality rate have relied on an imperfect statistic called the case fatality rate

A man and a woman wearing protective face masks walk past a graffiti on a wall. (REUTERS)
Published on Mar 26, 2021 11:16 AM IST
ByPaul Novosad, Rebecca Cai, Anup Malani, Vaidehi Tandel and Sam Asher

In India’s lower judiciary, the absence of in-group bias

There is evidence from around the world that judges discriminate in favour of litigants who share their identity. In contrast, we find no evidence of in-group bias by gender or religion in India’s lower judiciary.

Our study found an absence of in-group bias in one context, but it does not rule out other forms of bias in India’s legal system as a whole (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Jan 11, 2021 10:59 PM IST
BySam Asher, Paul Novosad and Aditi Bhowmick
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