A Tale of Two Programs: Assessing Treatment and Control in NREGA Studies

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 expenditur...

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1. Verfasser: Bahal, Girish (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2021
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Zusammenfassung: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
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DOI:10.1596/1813-9450-9835