We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …

Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …

earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …

earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …

Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …

examine the role of one of the world's largest employment guarantee schemes, India's MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one … capacity to provide public workdays under the scheme generated relatively higher employment during the pandemic. Consequently … areas in April-August 2020 by 7% overall and by 74% for rural women, over baseline employment rate. These cushioning effects …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

examine the role of one of the world’s largest employment guarantee schemes, India’s MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one … capacity to provide public work under the scheme showed relatively smaller employment losses during the pandemic. Consequently … areas in April-August 2020 by 7% overall and by 74% for rural women, over baseline employment rate. These cushioning effects …