Arbeitspapier
Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which provides up to 100 days of labor to rural laborers at the mandated minimum wage. We examine the within-district change to night-time lights and banking deposits using the staggered program rollout for identification. We find consistent and robust evidence that NREGS increased aggregate economic output by 1-2% per capita measured by night-time lights. This effect, however, is not equal across districts. We observe no positive effect of the program in poorer districts, illuminating an important source of heterogeneity.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13710
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Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Technological Change: Government Policy
Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- Subject
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NREGS
aggregate output
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cook, C. Justin
Shah, Manisha
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cook, C. Justin
- Shah, Manisha
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2020
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