The Role of Socio-economic Status in Shaping Macroecono

Using a household-level panel data set on Indian households, it is shown that households’ macroeconomic beliefs—their expectations regarding country-level macroeconomic developments—depend on their socio-economic status. Households with higher income and with more educated members are more optimistic not only with respect to the overall future business conditions of the

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