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SUMMARY:A Talk on 'Status Inequality and Public Goods' by Dr Sumit Mishra (Institute for Financial Management and Research)
LOCATION:RNJ 001
DESCRIPTION:Department of Economics invites you for a research talk in Economics Semina
 r Series, 2023 by Prof. Sumit Mishra.\nAbstract: The association between so
 cial diversity and state-provided public goods is a central political econo
 my problem. This paper highlights how status inequality is a distinct polit
 ical channel when diverse groups are spatially segregated. Social status im
 pacts citizens’ ability to petition the state successfully and modulates st
 ate favoritism or discrimination. We use data from nearly 600,000 villages 
 to show that caste-based status inequality modifies extant diversity and sp
 atial segregation channels of local public goods politics. Diversity is onl
 y negatively associated with local public goods in units where lower-caste 
 groups are demographically dominant. Such diversity deficit is further ampl
 ified when higher-caste groups numerically dominate larger administrative u
 nits and lower-caste groups are segregated. About the speaker: Dr Sumit Mis
 hra is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute for Financial M
 anagement and Research, Sri City. He received PhD in Development Studies, a
 nd M.Sc. in Economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.
  His thesis looked into the issue of regional imbalances in Maharashtra. Hi
 s primary research interest lies specifically in three aspects of Indian de
 velopment story: i) The relationship between caste diversity and access to 
 public goods in villages, ii) The association between segregation and publi
 c goods in cities and iii) The movement from farm to non-farm occupations (
 structural transformation).
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Department of Economics invites you for a research talk in Econo
 mics Seminar Series, 2023 by Prof. Sumit Mishra</strong>.</p><div><b>Abstra
 ct:</b> The association between social diversity and state-provided public 
 goods is a central political economy problem. This paper highlights how sta
 tus inequality is a distinct political channel when diverse groups are spat
 ially segregated. Social status impacts citizens’ ability to petition the s
 tate successfully and modulates state favoritism or discrimination. We use 
 data from nearly 600,000 villages to show that caste-based status inequalit
 y modifies extant diversity and spatial segregation channels of local publi
 c goods politics. Diversity is only negatively associated with local public
  goods in units where lower-caste groups are demographically dominant. Such
  diversity deficit is further amplified when higher-caste groups numericall
 y dominate larger administrative units and lower-caste groups are segregate
 d.</div><div><i> </i></div><div><b>About the <span>speaker</span>: </b>Dr S
 umit Mishra is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute for Fin
 ancial Management and Research, Sri City. He received PhD in Development St
 udies, and M.Sc. in Economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development R
 esearch. His thesis looked into the issue of regional imbalances in Maharas
 htra. His primary research interest lies specifically in three aspects of I
 ndian development story: i) The relationship between caste diversity and ac
 cess to public goods in villages, ii) The association between segregation a
 nd public goods in cities and iii) The movement from farm to non-farm occup
 ations (structural transformation).</div>
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