| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w14850
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 14850
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| Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth |
| Kaivan Munshi; Mark Rosenzweig
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| 发表日期 | 2009-04-03
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| 出版年 | 2009
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual insurance to their members. Unique panel data providing information on income, assets, gifts, loans, consumption, marriage, and migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis that local risk-sharing networks restrict mobility, is that among households with the same (permanent) income, those in higher-income caste networks are more likely to participate in caste-based insurance arrangements and are less likely to both out-marry and out-migrate. At the aggregate level, the networks appear to have coped successfully with the rising inequality within sub-castes that accompanied the Green Revolution. The results suggest that caste networks will continue to smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption-smoothing mechanisms of comparable quality become available. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
; Unemployment and Immigration
; Development and Growth
; Development
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14850
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572525
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Kaivan Munshi,Mark Rosenzweig. Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth. 2009.
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