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Workfare and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from India
Shah, Manisha - 2015
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare … 2.5 million rural children in India, we show that each year of exposure to NREGS decreases school enrollment by 2 …
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The Right to Education Act : Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality
Shah, Manisha - 2019
The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6 …
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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation
Gertler, Paul J. - 2015
-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …
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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2022
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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Drought of Opportunities : Contemporaneous and Long Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
Shah, Manisha - 2013
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production especially in the developing world. We show that human capital investment is procyclical in early life (in utero to age 3), but then becomes countercyclical. We argue this countercyclical effect is caused by families...
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