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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets : Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare

Basu, Arnab K. - 2011

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that … provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce … rural-urban migration. This paper, models the impact of such employment guarantee schemes in the context of an agrarian …

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Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments : Evidence from India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Bell, Clive - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of an income guarantee on borrowing to smooth consumption and finance cultivation in a risky setting with marked seasonality. A three-season, infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed and analyzed. The insights yielded by the model are then used to...

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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands

von Fintel, Dieter - 2016

-market economic activity (in the form of small-scale farming), and improve the self-reported food security of rural households that … greater levels and diversity in home production. The role of small-scale farming is of broader interest in rural development …. This paper's contribution is two-fold: grants are an effective channel to actively promote rural development through small …

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Endogenous Exit Bias in Training Programs for Unemployed Workers

Kluve, Jochen - 2012

This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the...

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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Breaking Ties : Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2019

Centralized school assignment algorithms must distinguish between applicants with the same preferences and priorities. This is done with randomly assigned lottery numbers, nonlottery tie-breakers like test scores, or both. The New York City public high school match illustrates the latter, using...

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Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable

Gerard, Francois - 2016

A key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that units cannot manipulate the value of their running variable in a way that guarantees or avoids assignment to the treatment. Standard identification arguments break down if this condition is violated. This paper shows that treatment...

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Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation : Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments

Fricke, Hans - 2015

This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use of a discrete instrument for the treatment and a continuous instrument for...

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Wild Bootstrap for Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs : Obtaining Robust Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals

He, Yang - 2019

This paper develops a novel wild bootstrap procedure to construct robust bias-corrected (RBC) valid confidence intervals (CIs) for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs, providing an intuitive complement to existing RBC methods. The CIs generated by this procedure are valid under conditions...

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