Scandizzo, Pasquale; Gaiha, Raghav; Imai, Katsushi - In: Applied Economics Letters 16 (2009) 12, pp. 1221-1225
Our analysis, based on the ICRISAT panel survey of villages in the semi-arid region of south India, confirms the income stabilizing effect of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India. Variability of household income is measured by an unconditional variance of residuals of an income equation. A...