Speaker: Dr. Sumit Mishra, Assistant Professor of Economics, IFMR GSB, Krea University
Date & Time: 25th August 2023 (Friday) from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue: Mini-Auditorium
Title of the paper: Status Inequality and Public Goods
About the Speaker: See the link https://sumitrmishra.github.io/
Abstract of the paper: The association between social diversity and state-provided public goods is a central political economy problem. This paper highlights how status inequality is a distinct political channel when diverse groups are spatially segregated. Social status impacts citizens’ ability to petition the state successfully and modulates state favoritism or discrimination. We use the Census 2011 data to show that caste-based status inequality modifies extant diversity and spatial segregation channels of local public goods politics.
Diversity only negatively impacts local public goods in units where lower caste groups are numerically preponderant. Such diversity deficit is further amplified when higher-caste groups numerically dominate larger administrative units and lower-caste groups are segregated.
