Berg, Erlend; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Rajasekhar, D; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2014
We estimate the impact of the Indian government’s major rural public works programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG), on agricultural wages. The rollout of NREG in three phases is used to identify difference-in-difference estimates of the programme effect. Using monthly wage...