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| المساهمون: |
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| المصدر: |
http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16875/1/Klonner_Oldiges_2014_dp564.pdfTest. |
| سنة النشر: |
2014 |
| المجموعة: |
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| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
job guarantee, public employment programs, welfare programs, poverty, consumption smoothing, India |
| الوصف: |
This paper examines the e¤ects of Indias Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Em-ployment Guarantee Act, currently the worlds largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data from consumption surveys with information on the district-wise rollout of the program, we employ a regression discontinuity design to estimate program e¤ects during the years 2007 and 2008. We nd large, season-speci c e¤ects among a tradi-tionally deprived sub-group of the rural population, whose incomes are particularly dependent on agricultural wage labor. We nd that for this group of households, which accounts for thirty percent of Indias rural population, employment opportu-nities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we nd no e¤ect during the agricultural peak season. In a cost-bene t analysis we nd that consumption increases among this group of house-holds are of the same order of magnitude as the wage outlays of the program. We document that consumption among this group of households had previously exhibited |
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| اللغة: |
English |
| العلاقة: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.694.8513Test; http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16875/1/Klonner_Oldiges_2014_dp564.pdfTest |
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http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16875/1/Klonner_Oldiges_2014_dp564.pdfTest |
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| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.244F6C5B |
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