We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare …

Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more “poor-poor” incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …