That inequality varies within and between groups is well understood. We explore how inequality can also be "fractal … inequality. Caste is generally analysed with government-defined "broad" categories, such as Scheduled Caste (SC). In everyday … life, however, caste is experienced as "jati", a local system of stratification. We explore expenditure inequality at the …

In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste …-caste inequality accounted for about 13 percent of overall wealth inequality in 2002-03, in part due to the considerable heterogeneity … divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991-92 and 2002-03. According …

Research on economic inequality has largely focused on understanding the relationship between organizations and … inequality but has paid limited attention to the role of institutions in the creation and maintenance of inequality. In this … functions—to elaborate on three elements of economic inequality: uneven dispersions in resource endowments, uneven access to …

government is able to reduce the gap in relation to institutional delivery, inequality, and land holding. …