Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31274 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2006-34
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much higher than among non-scheduled households. By combining regression estimates for the ratio of per capita expenditure to the poverty line and an Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis, we study how these differences in the incidence of poverty arise. We find that for SC households, differences in characteristics explain the gaps in poverty incidence more than differences in transformed regression coefficients. In contrast, for ST households, the transformed regression coefficients play the more important role.
Subjects: 
Poverty
caste
ethnicity
decomposition
JEL: 
I32
O12
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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