TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Jha, Kritarth
AU  - Novosad, Paul
AU  - Adukia, Anjali
AU  - Tan, Brandon
        TI  - Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods
        PY  - 2026/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18403
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18403
        AB  - 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 and infrastructure are systematically less available in Muslim and Scheduled Caste neighborhoods. Nearly all regressive allocation is across neighborhoods within cities at the most informal and least studied form of government. These inequalities are not visible in the aggregate data typically used for research and policy.
        KW  - segregation
KW  - neighborhoods
KW  - place-based policies
KW  - marginalized groups
KW  - infrastructure
KW  - access to public services
KW  - electricity
KW  - schools
KW  - sanitation
KW  - India
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Scheduled Castes
        ER  -