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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India

Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018

Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

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The impact of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth : an international comparison

Horioka, Charles - 2024

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The impact of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth : an international comparison

Horioka, Charles - 2024

light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …

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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe - 2019

We extend the Becker-Tomes (1986) model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by occupational dualism (farm vs. nonfarm) and provide a comparative analysis of rural India and rural China. Using two exceptional data-sets, we estimate father-sons...

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Intergenerational educational and occupational mobility among scheduled castes in rural Bihar

Mahapatro, Sandhya R.; Choudhary, Renu - In: Journal of social and economic development 24 (2022) 1, pp. 65-84

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Does a good father now have to be rich? : intergenerational income mobility in rural India

Shariq Mohammed, A. R. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 60 (2019), pp. 99-114

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Does a Good Father Now Have to Be Rich? Intergenerational Income Mobility in Rural India

Mohammed, Abdul Raheem Shariq - 2019

For developing countries, it is difficult to find income mobility studies that rely on datasets linking parents with their children. Most of the available evidence for developing countries, instead, relies on co-resident households and two-sample instrumental variables approach, which are known...

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Gender and distributional preferences: Experimental evidence from India

Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect allocations in a modified dictator game where both parties perform a cognitive task and the resulting pie to be split is the sum of both parties' earnings. Our key results are...

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