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Shariq Mohammed
Shariq Mohammed is currently a final year Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona, USA. Originally from Karnataka (India), he has completed his B.A. Hons. (SRCC, Delhi University) and Masters (Jawaharlal Nehru University) from New Delhi. His fields of interest are labour economics, development economics, and applied microeconomics. Currently he is working on a project that studies discrimination in the online sharing economy.
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Estimating intergenerational income mobility in rural India
For developing countries, it is difficult to find income mobility studies that rely on datasets linking parents with their children. Using a panel dataset spanning 1994-2012, this column presents improved estimates of intergenerational income mobility in rural India, which is found to be higher than analogous evidence from other developing countries. While India is progressing towards cross-caste equality, it is at a disappointingly slow rate.
