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Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy
Goel, Deepti; Deshpande, Ashwini - 2018
Economists are increasingly interested in subjective well-being, but the economic literature on perceptions of income … between caste identity and actual earnings. We find that caste identity does shape both perceptions of income adequacy as well …
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Social Identity and Aspiration - Double Jeopardy or Intersectionality? Evidence from Rural India
Sarkar, Sudipa; Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Lyonette, Clare - 2020
) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants … their lower income aspiration levels, in comparison with all other groups. Thus, our results support the hypothesis of …
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Social Identity and STEM Choice: Evidence from Higher Secondary Schooling in India
Kumar, Anand; Sahoo, Soham - 2021
This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the higher secondary level of schooling in India. We analyze the choice of science stream that is a crucial determinant of subsequent science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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