fall in the education premium. This recent trend of moderating income inequality might be the combined outcome of rising …

has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this … lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India …, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …

entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … broadly in rural India. In this paper, we construct a simple model of a village economy that captures several of the salient … outcomes observed in the village. We suggest that to the extent that there exist other villages in rural India with such …