analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

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

Employment Guarantee Scheme ; NREGA ; NREGS ; India ; regression discontinuity design …

This paper examines the effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, currently the world …'s largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … find that for this group of households,which accounts for thirty percent of India's rural population, employment …