Implications of the Politics of Caste and Class for Child Poverty in India

IF 1.3 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
A. Daoud, S. Nandy
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Abstract

Understanding the politics of caste, corruption, and wealth is essential for combating poverty in India. However, relatively few studies have systematically analyzed how these factors explain patterns of poverty combining state-level indicators with household and child-level outcomes. Focusing on child poverty as an outcome measure, this paper tests the explanatory potency of John Harriss's typology of state government political regimes, Transparency International India's measures of state corruption, and state-level wealth. Using data on 120,988 children from the third National Family Health Survey (2005–2006) and multilevel models, we find that Harriss's typology of state regimes better explains child poverty differences between states than Transparency International India's corruption index. States whose political regimes are historically dominated by upper-caste groups tend to have an adverse effect on poor children of lower castes, compared to states dominated by lower-caste groups. This adverse effect is amplified in wealthier states.
种姓和阶级政治对印度儿童贫困的影响
了解种姓、腐败和财富的政治对印度消除贫困至关重要。然而,相对较少的研究系统地分析了这些因素如何将州级指标与家庭和儿童一级的结果相结合来解释贫困模式。本文将儿童贫困作为一种结果衡量标准,检验了约翰·哈里斯对邦政府政治制度的类型学、透明国际印度对邦腐败和邦财富的衡量标准的解释效力。利用第三次全国家庭健康调查(2005-2006)中120988名儿童的数据和多层次模型,我们发现哈里斯的国家政权类型比透明国际印度的腐败指数更好地解释了各州之间的儿童贫困差异。与由低种姓群体主导的州相比,其政治制度在历史上由高种姓群体统治的州往往对低种姓的贫困儿童产生不利影响。这种不利影响在较富裕的州被放大了。
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Sociology of Development
Sociology of Development Social Sciences-Development
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