Ep. 449: Rags to Riches: The Mystery of Social Mobility in India - a podcast by IVM Podcasts

from 2020-11-05T00:35:03

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Social mobility refers to a change in one's social status relative to one's current social location. What are the factors impacting social mobility? What is the extent of social mobility in India? What are its impact on society, politics, and the economy? In this episode, Apurva Kumar and Sarthak Pradhan analyse some recent academic literature that tries to answer these questions.
The following are the articles/papers referred to -

  1. https://gentleleviathan.substack.com/p/dispatch-6-indias-precocious-development

  2. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~novosad/anr-india-mobility.pdf

  3. https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty-inequality/rags-to-riches-understanding-social-mobility-in-india.html

  4. https://wid.world/document/growing-cleavages-in-india-evidence-from-the-changing-structure-of-party-electorates-1962-2014-wid-world-working-paper-2019-05/

  5. https://opportunityinsights.org/

  6. https://www.vox.com/2020/4/15/21214734/deaths-of-despair-coronavirus-covid-19-angus-deaton-anne-case-americans-deaths

  7. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/bihar-elections-caste-obc-mandal-6929329/

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