Search Results - subject:"NREGS"

Employment generation among women in NREGS : a synthesis on the basis of micro level field investigation

Kundu, Amit; Talukdar, Sanjib - In: Journal of economics and political economy : JEPE 4 (2017) 1, pp. 107-120

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Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program

Zimmermann, Laura - 2020

Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...

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Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2020

This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS … robust evidence that NREGS increased aggregate economic output by 1-2% per capita measured by night-time lights. This effect …

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Aggregate effects from public works: evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2020

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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program

Zimmermann, Laura - 2020

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Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers: Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program

Chau, Nancy; Liu, Yanyan; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2018

Are political activists preferentially targeted by politicians engaging in clientelistic transfers to bolster political support? We provide the first model to highlight two possible rationales for such transfers: to mobilize support from the activists themselves, or to mobilize support from...

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