This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … Other Backward Caste households with respect to general category households, and the disadvantage exists across the entire … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … Other Backward Caste households with respect to general category households, and the disadvantage exists across the entire … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …

aggregate economy. We study this phenomenon in a setting where work and identity are particularly intertwined: the Indian caste … system. Using a new dataset that combines information on caste, occupation, wages, and historical evidence of subcastes …' traditional occupations, we show that caste members are still greatly overrepresented in their traditional occupations. To …

Indian caste system. Using a new dataset that combines information on caste, occupation, wages, and historical evidence of … subcastes' traditional occupations, the paper shows that caste members are still greatly overrepresented in their traditional … occupations. To quantify the effects of caste-level distortions on aggregate and distributional outcomes, the paper develops a …