NCID recently had the honor of hosting Professor Kaivan Munshi of University of Cambridge's Economics Faculty in Pamplona. Professor Munshi presented his recent work on the role of the caste system in India in defining economic and social trends. In the paper, he examines intra-cast support networks, or insurance, as they affect the likeliness of someone to migrate to the urban labor market.

Munshi summarized the context of the paper as the following. "The rural urban wage gap has exceed 25% for decades in India and at the same...