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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015
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 …. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …
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Non-Contributory Pensions
Galiani, Sebastian - 2014
The creation of non-contributory pension schemes is becoming increasingly common as countries struggle to reduce poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) - a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural adults over 70 years of age - we evaluate the effects of...
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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016
knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …
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Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
Balat, Jorge F. - 2010
This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We...
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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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E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Imbert, Clément - 2016
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether … transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …
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Impact of Rural and Urban Hospital Closures on Inpatient Mortality
Gujral, Kritee - 2019
This paper uses a difference-in-difference approach to examine the impact of California's hospital closures occurring from 1995-2011 on adjusted inpatient mortality for time-sensitive conditions: sepsis, stroke, asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute myocardial infarction...
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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
Kaur, Supreet - 2014
This paper tests for downward nominal wage rigidity by examining transitory shifts in labor demand, generated by rainfall shocks, in 600 Indian districts from 1956-2009. Nominal wages rise in response to positive shocks but do not fall during droughts. In addition, transitory positive shocks...
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