A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups – Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) – is underest...

While various factors such as float ownership, logic change, and resource allocation FLORA affect results of delay analysis, existing delay analysis techniques tend to ignore most if not all of them. To address this insufficiency this paper proposes a new schedule analysis technique called FLORA that simultaneously captures the dynamics of float, logic, and resource allocation in its analyses. ...

Some questions raised by Amsel's valuable review of his extensive research on reward-schedule effects are considered-questions about the nature of instrumental conditioning, about the distinction between long- and short-term memory, and about evolutionary divergence in learning.