We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in … mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we … find that a mother's participation in the labor force increases her children's time spent in school and leads to better …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a large scale public works programme on educational decisions including children … as it has gained substantial importance over the last few years in developing countries including India. The findings …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …

We examine the labour market impacts of the largest livelihoods programs in the world, India's Deendayal Antyodaya …-help groups (SHGs). We combine administrative data on SHG membership across districts in India with survey micro-data on labour … force and employment outcomes of rural women between 2011 and 2019. Using a generalized difference-in-differences approach …

take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This paper analyzes the employment impacts of the world's largest … employment. This self-revealed preference for a different type of job suggests other potential benefits of safety net programs …

Pradesh from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a rights-based program distributing both public and private …

ownership distributions and the implementations of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India, I find robust … measurement error, I leverage a historical institution in India, the land revenue collection system established by British … hurdle to providing public employment to the poor, suggesting power asymmetries could hinder policies aimed at promoting …

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …