Income concentration in British India, 1885–1946

Autor: Augustin Bergeron, Facundo Alvaredo, Guilhem Cassan
Přispěvatelé: Paris School of Economics (PSE), Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PJSE), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford [Oxford], Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET), Harvard University, Université de Namur [Namur], École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université de Namur [Namur] (UNamur)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Colonization
Economics and Econometrics
Inequality
060106 history of social sciences
media_common.quotation_subject
Distribution (economics)
India
Development
Economía y Negocios
COLONIZATION
CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Politics
Income distribution
Income tax
0502 economics and business
Development economics
Economics
0601 history and archaeology
050207 economics
Location
media_common
Net national income
Total personal income
business.industry
05 social sciences
1. No poverty
06 humanities and the arts
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
JEL: O - Economic Development
Innovation
Technological Change
and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O10 - General
Economía
Econometría
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D3 - Distribution/D.D3.D31 - Personal Income
Wealth
and Their Distributions
Top incomes
8. Economic growth
Demographic economics
INDIA
business
INEQUALITY
JEL: N - Economic History/N.N3 - Labor and Consumers
Demography
Education
Health
Welfare
Income
Wealth
Religion
and Philanthropy/N.N3.N35 - Asia including Middle East
TOP INCOMES
Zdroj: Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, 2017, 127, pp.459-469. ⟨10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.01.005⟩
ISSN: 0304-3878
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.01.005⟩
Popis: We use a novel income tax data set to present evidence on the evolution of income concentration in the last 60 years of colonial rule in India. These data allow us to study the evolution of income concentration at the country level as well as the location of top income earners across provinces. We identify three key facts: (1) the evolution of income concentration in British India was nonlinear, following a U-shape, (2) the majority of top income earners were non-Europeans, and (3) the geographical location of top income earners changed over time with the province of Bombay gaining in importance in the early XXth century. We provide an interpretation of these results in the light of the economic and political changes in British India over the period. Fil: Gonzalez Alvaredo, Facundo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Paris School of Economics; Francia. Oxford University; Reino Unido Fil: Bergeron, Augustin. Harvard University; Estados Unidos Fil: Cassan, Guilhem. University of Namur; Bélgica
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