Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is … when the center wants to honor the employment guarantee. Two main drivers of such rationing are identified: local …

house prices, consumption, and employment. Our findings have implications for mortgage market design, monetary policy pass …

three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with …India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within … employment impact on various types of crimes, ranging from burglary to kidnapping to riots. We show that the program acts as an …

This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between …

persistence is that treated households take better advantage of opportunities to diversify into lucrative wage employment …

interest to researchers - in our case, time allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using survey …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …

The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the … testing based on household consumption choices and implement the procedure using data from rural Indonesia. Relative to …