Revisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages

Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. We apply an adaptation to the standard approach that remedies these problems to l...

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Main Authors: Lanjouw, Peter, Rao, Vijayendra
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4663