A (paid) passage to India: Migration and revealed willingness to pay for upper‐caste status
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How much are individuals willing to pay for privileged status in a society with systemic discrimination? Utilizing unique data on indentured Indians Fiji paying return India, I calculate how upper-caste were historically their status. show the lower bound of value uppermost castes north India equaled almost 2.5 years' gross wages. The ordering follows hypothesized inter-caste hierarchies and shows diminishing effects as caste falls. Men entirely drive effects. My results some first evidence quantifying values speak caste's persistence.
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Inquiry
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0043-3640', '1465-7295', '0095-2583']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13139