A Tale of Two Programs

• Tác giả: Girish Bahal
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 791.45 Television
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 307864
• Chủ đề: 1. EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM; 2. IMPACT EVALUATION; 3. NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT; 4. PUBLIC WORKFARE; 5. TREATMENT-CONTROL

Tóm tắt

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.