exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …

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

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. …

monthly earnings among those employed. However, there are no overall impacts on employment rates. Regarding non-labor market … employment, the practical significance of the impacts is unclear, as there is only weak evidence that the life skills measures …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases … participants' physical mobility, political participation, and access to employment. The program provides support groups, literacy …

Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been … matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …, regular employment and earnings. In addition to average treatment effects, we calculate dynamic and cumulative treatment …

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 … possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the benefit replacement ratio, employment protection and the collective …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …