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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh / Klaus Deininger
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Deininger, Klaus
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture.
- Employment guarantee.
- Governance.
- Housing & Human Habitats.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Poverty Monitoring & Analysis.
- Public investment.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- India.
- Local Subjects:
- Agriculture.
- Employment guarantee.
- Governance.
- Housing & Human Habitats.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Poverty Monitoring & Analysis.
- Public investment.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (31 pages)
- Other Title:
- Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2013
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase consumption (protein and energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more nonfinancial assets in the medium term. Direct benefits exceed program-related transfers and are most pronounced for scheduled castes and tribes and households supplying casual labor. Asset creation via program-induced land improvements is consistent with a medium-term increase in assets by nonparticipants and increases in wage income in excess of program cost.
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