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India is set to become the world’s youngest nation by 2020 with every third person in a city a youth. While we need to take advantage of this demographic dividend, inequality between the haves and the have-nots persists based on gender, location and caste. Drawing upon the ‘Young Lives’ longitudinal study on childhood poverty in India spanning 15 years (2001–2016), this chapter measures outcomes of the 1,000 older cohort children located in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, who we have followed since the age of 8 and who turned 22 in 2016. Using mixed methods, the chapter adopts a life cycle approach and analyses how individuals relate and respond differently to adversity and opportunities. It explores factors such as social capital, highest level of education achieved, risks (such as crop failure) and shocks (e.g. debt related to dowry and health expenses) along with psycho-social measures such as self-efficacy and subjective well-being. Building upon the qualitative interviews with young people and their parents, this chapter also examines changes in the lives of the older cohort as compared to their parents.
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SCs and STs have inherited historical disadvantages with the former considered ‘untouchable’ historically and the latter facing geographical marginalisation. Their landholdings are smaller than those of other social groups, and social oppressions continues to create barriers to their progress. Backward class (OBC) is another caste group that remains marginalised while Other Caste (OC) are the richest and most privileged caste group.
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Now divided into the new states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
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Free meal provided by the government in primary schools.
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Singh, R., Mukherjee, P. (2019). Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Exploring Subjective Well-Being, Risks, Shocks, and Resilience Amongst Youth in India. In: Cuervo, H., Miranda, A. (eds) Youth, Inequality and Social Change in the Global South. Perspectives on Children and Young People, vol 6. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3750-5_4
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