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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.contributor.authorLanjouw, Peter
dc.contributor.authorRao, Vijayendra
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:29:07Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:29:07Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractStandard 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.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Development
dc.identifier.issn0305750X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4663
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.isnodouble3694
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectPersonal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310
dc.subjectEquity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement D630
dc.subjectEconomics of Minorities and Races
dc.subjectNon-labor Discrimination J150
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.subjectFormal and Informal Sectors
dc.subjectShadow Economy
dc.subjectInstitutional Arrangements O170
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
dc.subjectTransportation O180
dc.subjectUrban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration
dc.subjectRegional Labor Markets
dc.subjectPopulation
dc.subjectNeighborhood Characteristics R230
dc.titleRevisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villagesen
dc.title.alternativeWorld Developmenten
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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okr.journal.nbpages174-187
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryIndia
okr.relation.associatedurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.035
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okr.volume39
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