Arbeitspapier
Labor market impacts of a large-scale public works program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a regression discontinuity design. I find that private-sector wages increase substantially for women, but not for men, and that these effects are concentrated during the main agricultural season. In contrast, there is little evidence for negative private employment effects.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6858
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Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Labor Demand
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
- Subject
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public works program
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
NREGA
NREGS
India
regression discontinuity design
Arbeitsbeschaffung
Wirkungsanalyse
Ländlicher Arbeitsmarkt
Fraueneinkommen
Indien
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Zimmermann, Laura
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Zimmermann, Laura
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2012
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