Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (30 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Print Version: Bahal, Girish A Tale of Two Programs: Assessing Treatment and Control in NREGA Studies
Keywords:
Employment Program
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Impact Evaluation
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Labor Policies
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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Public Workfare
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Rural Development
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Rural Labor Markets
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Social Protections and Labor
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Treatment-Control
Abstract:
This paper revisits impact evaluation studies on the largest public workfare in the world, NREGA. In an environment where randomization is not feasible, I show why an impact evaluation exercise on NREGA should acknowledge the existence of an older program, SGRY. Using novel district-level expenditure data on SGRY, this article shows how ignoring the older program is likely to underestimate the general equilibrium impact of the employment policy on various relevant socio-economic outcomes. In most cases, ignoring SGRY underestimates NREGA's impact by 30-40 percent
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-9835
URL:
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