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work_rdfnv7n7gfd7pedqbspucedd44	Smriti Sharma	Caste-based crimes and economic status: Evidence from India	2015	23	.pdf	application/pdf	16924	1766	67	expenditures of SCs/STs to that of upper castes – are associated with changes in the incidence of crimes against SCs/STs. Based on the hierarchical social structure implied by Using district level official data on crimes against SCs and STs and per capita expenditures as a proxy for material standard trend between the two periods, a coefficient of 0.304 indicates that a 10 percent decrease in the expenditure ratio or widening of the gap between lower and upper castes is associated with about a 3 percent decrease in total crime rate. Effect of group-wise expenditures on total, IPC and SLL crime rates. dependent variable is the SLL crime rate against SCSTs. In this regression, the expenditure ratio coefficient is insignificant thereby indicating that the relative economic position of SCSTs vis-à-vis the upper castes is not associated with the SLL crime SCST expenditure have no significant association with crime rate, the upper castes' expenditure coefficient is negative	./cache/work_rdfnv7n7gfd7pedqbspucedd44.pdf	./txt/work_rdfnv7n7gfd7pedqbspucedd44.txt