) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …

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 …

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …