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sumit.mishra@krea.edu.inSumit is an Assistant Professor of economics at the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Sri City. His research focus is on examining how geography and state capacity affect the relationship between social divisions and economic development. He is also interested in the issue of structural transformation in India.
Posts by Sumit Mishra
Diversity and public goods: Why the geographical unit of analysis matters
Research has shown that regions with higher caste diversity have lower share of villages with essential public goods. This article challenges this finding and shows that empirical models estimated at ...
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Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Sumit Mishra Andaleeb Rahman 
23 November, 2020
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Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste
B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-leve...
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Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Sumit Mishra Andaleeb Rahman
- 01 July, 2020
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