Social Hierarchies and Public Distribution of Food in Rural India.

In this paper, we develop a simple model to show that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states in which the PDS functions relatively well; in states in which the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using household-leve...

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Publicado en:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 51; no. 12; pp. 1653 - 1667
Autores principales: Basu, Deepankar, Das, Debarshi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2015
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          Basu, Deepankar
          Das, Debarshi
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          Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
          Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
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        India
        Household surveys
        Household budgets
        Poor people
        Food relief
        Personal finance
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          Consumer Lending
          International assistance
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          Food relief
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      ab: In this paper, we develop a simple model to show that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states in which the PDS functions relatively well; in states in which the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using household-level data from three recent thick rounds of the consumption expenditure survey (2004–2005, 2009–2010, and 2011–2012), we find evidence in support of the predictions from the model. This suggests that one way to make the PDS functional is to make it more accessible to poor and underprivileged households.
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