2023
DOI: 10.1111/ecin.13139
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A (paid) passage to India: Migration and revealed willingness to pay for upper‐caste status

Abstract: How much are individuals willing to pay for privileged status in a society with systemic discrimination? Utilizing unique data on indentured Indians in Fiji paying to return to India, I calculate how much upper-caste individuals were willing to pay historically for their status. I show the lower bound of the value of the uppermost castes in north India equaled almost 2.5 years' gross wages.The ordering follows hypothesized inter-caste hierarchies and shows diminishing effects as caste status falls. Men entirel… Show more

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