Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses … significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 per cent of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the …

The persistent gap in economic outcomes between the upper and lower caste groups in India is typically explained … through differences in endowments and the presence of discrimination. While there is sizable literature that examines caste … gaps in physical and intellectual human capital, this paper contributes to a small literature that evaluates caste …

Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the … inequalities in India by looking within these groupings, and studying differences between the individual jatis that comprise these … numerically larger Scheduled Caste communities witnessed greater improvements in educational levels compared to smaller ones, this …