Income Disparities Across Indian States

Kei-Mu Yi and Amartya Lahiri

No 132, 2007 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We document the divergence of per capita incomes across states in India between 1960 and 1996. We find that differences in the evolution of state-specific productivity can account for most of the observed increase in income disparities across Indian states during this period.

Date: 2007
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