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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program : Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...
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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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Local Funds and Political Competition : Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Gupta, Bhanu - 2014
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 …
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The Origins of Cognitive Skills and Non-Cognitive Skills : The Long-Term Effect of In-Utero Rainfall Shocks in India
Chang, Grace; Favara, Marta; Novella, Rafael - 2021
outcomes in childhood and adolescence in India. Combining historical rainfall data and longitudinal data from Young Lives, we …
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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 …
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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
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 …
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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved so Little Success in the United States?
Bates, Timothy - 2010
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...
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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas - 2014
microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a randomized controlled trial and accompanied by household panel surveys … this paper, the effect is largely due to an ex-ante feeling of protection as opposed to a shock-mitigation effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064121
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit : Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Bauer, Michal - 2014
experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of …
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