Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad categories, such as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. In everyday life, however, caste is lived and experienced as jati, which is a local system of stratification. Little is known about economic inequality at the jati level. This paper uses data from poor rural districts in Bihar to explore expenditure inequality at the jati level. Inequality...
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2018/07/10
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики
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WPS8512
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2018/07/10
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Jati inequality in rural Bihar
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Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research