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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that …
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In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …
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theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …
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This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...
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) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …
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