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Determinants of rural households’ income inequality in India

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Title Determinants of rural households’ income inequality in India
 
Creator Ghanshyam Pandey
Bisla Devi
 
Subject Income
determinants
Gini
inequality
CLAD model
India
 
Description This study has identified the drivers of income inequality in rural India using IHDS 2011–12 national-level survey. The inequality decomposition methodology developed by Fields (2003) based on a two-way regression methodology has been used. The study has modified on the previous regressionbased inequality decomposition technique by accounting for diverse income sources and regimes as well as by effectively correcting for selectivity in the various income regimes. The CLAD model has been used to distinguish the determinants of income inequality in rural India. The study has indicated that income inequality in farm households can be attributed to the level of education, family size, caste/social group composition, and composition in land ownership, and that family size and land ownership are instrumental primarily due to off-farm labour income. The study has shown that education is a significant factor in income inequality due to its impact on off-farm work income. The study has suggested that a continued increase in variability in land distribution may exacerbate income inequality in households in rural India.
 
Publisher Agricultural Economics Research Association (India)
 
Date 2024-04-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/AERR/article/view/150669
 
Source Agricultural Economics Research Review; Vol. 36 No. 2 (2023): Agricultural Economics Research Review; 213-225
0974-0279
0971-3441
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/AERR/article/view/150669/54350