Short‐run changes in rural income inequality: A decomposition analysis
定量评估了1968-69至1970-71年间印度农村收入不平等显著下降的主要原因，发现劳动力市场整体收紧是核心因素，天气好坏通过影响高收入家庭劳动供给间接改变收入分配。
This paper quantitatively assesses the principal determinants of the rather dramatic decline in income inequality observed in rural India between 1968–69 and 1970–71. A simple form of decomposition analysis is used to demonstrate that the most important effects of changes in weather, in technology, and in other factors on income distribution are those which occur rather indirectly as a result of overall tightening of the labour market. Whereas in periods of generally bad weather, workers from high‐income households apparently ‘crowd‐out’ those from low‐income households, in periods of good weather income effects induce the former to consume leisure, thereby opening up more jobs for workers from low‐income households.