Lanjouw, PeterRao, Vijayendra2012-03-302012-03-302011World Development0305750Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4663Standard 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.ENPersonal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement D630Economics of Minorities and RacesNon-labor Discrimination J150Economic Development: Human ResourcesHuman DevelopmentIncome DistributionMigration O150Formal and Informal SectorsShadow EconomyInstitutional Arrangements O170Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural AnalysesTransportation O180Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional MigrationRegional Labor MarketsPopulationNeighborhood Characteristics R230Journal ArticleWorld Bank