Traditional hierarchies and affirmative action in a globalizing economy: evidence from India

We compare successive age cohorts of three broad social groups - Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC-STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and “Others” and provide the first disaggregated picture of the evolution of inter-caste disparities in India. The results show that absolute caste gaps in years of sc...

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Main Authors: Deshpande, Ashwini (Author) , Ramachandran, Rajesh (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 5 March 2019
In: World development
Year: 2019, Volume: 118, Pages: 63-78
ISSN:1873-5991
DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.02.006
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Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.02.006
Verlag, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X19300312
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Author Notes:Ashwini Deshpande, Rajesh Ramachandran
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