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Revisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages

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dc.creator Lanjouw, Peter
dc.creator Rao, Vijayendra
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:29:07Z
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:29:07Z
dc.date 2011
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-18T19:44:04Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-18T19:44:04Z
dc.identifier World Development
dc.identifier 0305750X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4663
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/250139
dc.description Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. We apply an adaptation to the standard approach that remedies these problems to longitudinal household data from two Indian villages-Palanpur in the north and Sugao in the west. In Palanpur we find that the largest Scheduled Caste group failed to share in the gradual rise in village prosperity. This would not have emerged from standard decomposition analysis. However, in Sugao the alternative procedure does not yield any additional insights because income gains have applied relatively evenly across castes.
dc.language EN
dc.relation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.relation 3694
dc.rights World Bank
dc.subject Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310
dc.subject Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement D630
dc.subject Economics of Minorities and Races
dc.subject Non-labor Discrimination J150
dc.subject Economic Development: Human Resources
dc.subject Human Development
dc.subject Income Distribution
dc.subject Migration O150
dc.subject Formal and Informal Sectors
dc.subject Shadow Economy
dc.subject Institutional Arrangements O170
dc.subject Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
dc.subject Transportation O180
dc.subject Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration
dc.subject Regional Labor Markets
dc.subject Population
dc.subject Neighborhood Characteristics R230
dc.title Revisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages
dc.type Journal Article
dc.type Journal Article
dc.coverage India


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