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Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector: The Consequences of Land Fragmentation

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  • Sanjoy Chakravorty
  • S. Chandrasekhar
  • Karthikeya Naraparaju

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This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. The paper analyses the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using descriptive, decomposition, and modelling tools, and estimate income inequality in the agricultural sector at the scale of the nation and its 17 largest states.

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  • Sanjoy Chakravorty & S. Chandrasekhar & Karthikeya Naraparaju, 2017. "Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector: The Consequences of Land Fragmentation," Working Papers id:11692, eSocialSciences.
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    Keywords

    Agricultural Households; Sources of Income; Income Inequality; agricultural sector; National Sample Surveys (NSS); modelling tools; India;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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