History, Social Divisions, and Public Goods in Rural India

By Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Shankar Iyer, R. Somanathan. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages (2012, background): “Other studies include Vigdor (2004) who shows that higher racial, generational and socioeconomic heterogeneity across US counties is associated with lower response rates to the 2000 Census questionnaire, and Banerjee et al. (2005) who, in the context of rural India, find that higher caste and religi”
Caste as an Impediment to Trade (2011, background): “…prevent collective action failures.4 Previous empirical work particular to India has demonstrated that ethno-linguistic fragmentation, applied to caste and religious divisions, negatively correlates with access to public goods (Banerjee and Somanathan 2004, Banerjee, Iyer, and Somanathan 2005).”
Can the West Save Africa (2008, unknown): “Evidence is also now accumulating on the effectiveness of certain school inputs like extra teachers and textbooks (Banerjee et al. 2005; Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, and Kremer 2007; and Glewwe et al. 2007), and provider incentives (Glewwe et al.”
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2017, result): “57 These findings are consistent with other work on India, which finds that citizen mobilization and national political agendas have played the dominant role in determining which regions gained public goods (Banerjee, Iyer, and Somanathan 2005; Banerjee and Somanathan 2007).”
Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste (2013, unknown): “The second is through the effect of group-identity on government policy and the provision of services such as public goods (Banerjee et al. 2005; Banerjee & Somanathan 2007).”
Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities: Do They Matter for Economic Development? (2012, background): “…we 2 Several other papers examine the effect of historical factors on withincountry variation in development, including Banerjee and Iyer (2005), Banerjee, Iyer, and Somanathan (2005), and Iyer (2005) for India; Acemoglu et al. (2008), Rosas and Mendoza (2004), and Bonet and Meisel (2006) for…”
Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark (2018, background): “Luttmer (2001) and Senik et al. (2009), for example, find evidence that support for welfare spending is negatively related to local ethnic diversity in both the US General Social Survey and the European Social Survey.”