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Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods

Sam Asher, Kritarth Jha, Paul Novosad, Anjali Adukia, Brandon Tan. February 2026

Topics: Policy, Politics, and Governance

Tags: International and comparative, Neighborhoods, Race, ethnicity, and education

We study residential segregation and access to public services across 1.5 million urban and rural neighborhoods in India. Muslim and Scheduled Caste segregation in India is high by global standards, and only slightly lower than Black-White segregation in the U.S. Within cities, public facilities… more →
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Institutions: Imperial College London, The Data Lab, Dartmouth College, University of Chicago, Harvard University