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Independent research · 2006–2021 panel

Sectoral Drivers of Income Inequality in India

India got richer after 2014. I wanted to know who did.

I built a panel dataset covering six major states over fifteen years from the RBI Handbook of Statistics, then ran fixed-effects regression, Gini estimation via variance of logarithms, and Lorenz curve analysis, validating model selection with a Hausman test.

The finding was uncomfortable. In the industrially advanced states — Karnataka, Gujarat — post-2014 reforms deepened inequality rather than easing it. Manufacturing's equalising effect weakened, while capital-intensive industry and services pulled the distribution apart.