Economic Comparison and Group Identity: Lessons from India
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The caste issue dominates a large part of India’s social and political life. Caste shapes one’s identity. Furthermore, strong tensions exist between castes. Using subjective well-being data, we assess the role economic comparisons play in this society. We focus on both within and between-castes comparisons. Within-caste comparisons appear to reduce well-being. Comparisons between rival castes are found to decrease well-being three times more. We link these results to two models in which economic comparison triggers the actual caste-based behaviours (castes’ political demands, discrimination). keywords: Subjective Well-being ; Relative Utility ; Comparison ; Identity ; Caste ; India ; Discrimination ; Panel Data ∗We are grateful to Shinsuke Ikeda, Fumio Ohtake, and Yoshiro Tsutsui for allowing us to use the “Survey on Preferences toward, and Satisfaction with, Life" of Osaka University. We are also grateful to the CEPREMAP and the India Research Group for providing us the Indian National Sample Survey data. We would like to thank Alpaslan Akay, Andrew Clark, Rakesh Gupta, Clément Imbert, Claudia Senik, Zahra Siddique and Pankaj Verma for their helpful comments. Any remaining error is the sole responsibility of the authors. †Paris School of Economics. Corresponding author: [email protected] ‡Osaka University, ISER
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تاریخ انتشار 2012