India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that … rural-urban migration. This paper, models the impact of such employment guarantee schemes in the context of an agrarian … examine labor and output market responses to a productive rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and determine the optimal …

analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

We examine the efficacy of a popular anti-poverty programme, namely the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA …) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could … persists even when the worker has an outside employment option. If a programme of financial inclusion increases the …

Employment Guarantee Scheme ; NREGA ; NREGS ; India ; regression discontinuity design … countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of …. In contrast, there is little evidence for negative private employment effects. -- public works program ; National Rural …

Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data … on funds sanctioned and election results from three rounds of elections in Rajasthan, a state in India, we find an …

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …