The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education
Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to study the effects on enrollment in schools and child labor. Introduction of MGNREGA results in lower relative school enrollment in treated districts. The authors find that the drop in enrollment is driven by primary school children. Children in higher grades are just as likely to attend school under MGNREGA, but their school performance deteriorates. Using nationally representative employment data, they find evidence indicating an increase in child labor highlighting the unintentional perverse effects of the employment guarantee schemes for Human capital
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2020
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Authors: | Sekhri, Sheetal |
Other Persons: | Li, Tianshu (contributor) |
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[2020]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Kinderarbeit | Child labour | Spillover-Effekt | Spillover effect | Arbeitsmarktpolitik | Labour market policy | Junge Arbeitskräfte | Young workers |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (39 p) |
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Series: | World Bank Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 9106 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 7, 2020 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844585
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