 Exclusive quota for economically weaker sectionsShivendra Kumar Pandey Journal of Policy Modeling, 2025, vol. 47, issue 6, 1246-1263 Abstract: Literature indicates that candidates from higher socio-economic strata within the marginalised castes/ethnicities reap the benefits of affirmative action (AA). Some governments addressed the issue by incorporating socio-economic measures with caste/ethnicity in AA. However, no government has implemented a quota purely based on income for the non-marginalised castes/ethnicities. India provides a unique setting as it started an exclusive quota in higher educational institutes for upper castes’ economically weaker section (EWS) candidates. Our model tests and finds that EWS candidates performed similar to general candidates throughout the academic career and also in the Combined Admissions Test (CAT) for entering into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Managements (IIMs). However, females require AA to make it to the IIMs in sizeable proportions. We recommend adding weight to the magnitude of poverty within the EWS category in the AA policy and providing quotas for females within castes in higher education. Keywords: Affirmative action policies; quota; Economically weaker sections; ANOVA; T-tests; Multivariate general linear model; Higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jpolmo:v:47:y:2025:i:6:p:1246-1263 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2025.09.001 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Policy Modeling is currently edited by A. M. Costa More articles in Journal of Policy Modeling from Elsevier |
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