Caste and Tribe Inequality: Evidence from India, 1983–1999

By Yoko Kijima. Economic development and cultural change, 2006

226 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Caste discrimination and transaction costs in the labor market: Evidence from rural North India (2009, background): “…groups for reservation was extended, and “other backward classes” (OBCs) were added to the list.3 Despite such policy efforts, the economic circumstances of socially backward and upper classes continue to differ substantially (Srinivasan and Kumar, 1999; Thorat, 2002; Borooah, 2005; Kijima, 2006).”
Poverty In Rural India: Caste And Tribe (2008, methodology): “Four recent studies—Bhaumik and Chakrabarty (2006), Kijima (2006), Borooah (2005) and Gang et al. (2002)—investigate the living standards of the SC, ST and non-scheduled in India.3 Bhaumik and Chakrabarty (2006) and Kijima (2006) examine differences in earnings/mean consumption levels among these…”
The empty rhetoric of poverty reduction at the base of the pyramid (2012, background): “Affirmative action (reservations in educational institutions, government jobs and rural development programmes) by Indian governments in the last six decades has had limited impact on eradication of lower caste destitution (Kijima, 2006).”