Poverty in rural India: ethnicity and caste

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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much higher than among non-scheduled households. By combining regression estimates for the ratio of per capita expenditure to the poverty line and an Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis, we study how these differences in the incidence of poverty arise. We find that for SC households, differences in characteristics explain the gaps in poverty incidence more than differences in transformed regression coefficients. In contrast, for ST households, the transformed regression coefficients play the more important role.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2006-34

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: Poverty ; caste ; ethnicity ; decomposition

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gang, Ira N. ; Sen, Kunal ; Yun, Myeong-Su
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rutgers University, Department of Economics
• (where): New Brunswick, NJ
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31274
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