Are Caste Categories Misleading? : The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States
This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste the paper finds patterns that are consistent with existing lit...
Main Authors: | Joshi, Shareen, Kochhar, Nishtha, Rao, Vijayendra |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/411391498158851891/Are-caste-categories-misleading-the-relationship-between-gender-and-Jati-in-three-Indian-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27607 |
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