Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/141651 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9892
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find that the between-district component accounts for one-third of the increase in total income inequality in rural India between 1993 and 2011. We find significantly smaller level of inequality but similar trends using the consumption expenditure data.
Subjects: 
income inequality
regional inequality
India
JEL: 
I30
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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