Ravi, Shamika; Engler, Monika - In: World Development 67 (2015) C, pp. 57-71
This paper analyzes the impact of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on poor rural households. In particular, we study the impact of the program on food security, savings, and health outcomes. We have a panel data of 1,064 households from 198 villages of Andhra Pradesh,...