Download This PaperDeterminants of Employment in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
34 Pages Posted: 11 Apr 2011
Date Written: January 5, 2011
Abstract
Using household level data this paper provides systematic evidence on the employment impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in three Indian states: Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. We model this as a two stage Heckman procedure where we model selection for NREGS in the first phase and the determinants of hours worked in the second. A number of significant insights into the employment impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme are obtained.
Keywords: National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Heckman Models, Asia, India
JEL Classification: C34, I32, J21, J43
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