While social mobility in advanced economies has received extensive scholarly attention,
crucial knowledge gaps remain about the patterns and determinants of income, educational …

Nearly one sixth of the global population lives in urban “slums”–areas characterized by
inadequate infrastructure and tenure security. This figure continues to grow as developing …

Workers' social identity affects their occupation, and therefore the structure and prosperity of
the aggregate economy. We estimate a general equilibrium Roy model of this phenomenon …

Social mobility—usually understood as movement from a lower to a higher level of
education or occupational status, or from a lower to a higher social class or income group …

In urban informal economies, waste-pickers increasingly face threat to their livelihoods due
to the rapid emergence of formal systems of waste collection and lack of adequate public …

The association between social diversity and state-provided public goods is a central
political economy problem. This paper highlights how status inequality is a distinct political …

Projections suggest that most of the global growth in population in the next few decades will
be in urban centres in Asia and Africa. Most of these additional urban residents will be …

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited
knowledge about multigenerational mobility—status transmission across three generations …

Abstract Background Nutritional inequality in India has been estimated typically using
stunting, wasting and underweight separately which hide the overall magnitude and severity …

This article examines the effects of parents' educational backgrounds and career
preferences on their children's educational and employment opportunities in India's various …