This study estimates poverty, wealth inequality, and financial inclusion, for the first time, at the sub-caste level in both Hindus and Muslims using a unique survey data collected from 7124 households in Uttar Pradesh, India, during 2014-2015. The results confirm the existing hypothesis that...

This thesis comes out at a time when the debate on between-state and social group demographic and health inequalities continues to be largely debated based on most recent available information. However, analyses based on the recent demographic and health data have serious limitations in terms of...

Are the fertility rates across the Indian states and socioeconomic spectrum converging? This paper seeks to answer to this question and makes three original contributions: First, a theoretical framework is conceptualised to understand the progress in fertility transition alongside socioeconomic...

Background & objectives: The ambiguity and variability in existing literature on the magnitude of socio-economic inequality in self-reported morbidities makes it difficult to set priorities in health policy. This study examined three critical research questions: first, how far self-reporting...

The objectives of this study are: first, to test the “inequality life cycle hypothesis” in the context of long-term demographic progress in India, and second, to identify the different stages of between-state inequality transition in the demographic progress and to predict its future...