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Switches into and out of NREGS — A panel data analysis for Rajasthan

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  • Raghbendra Jha
  • Raghav Gaiha
  • Manoj K. Pandey
  • Shylashri Shankar

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India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country's most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004-05) there is a need to assess its impact on households not just in one year but over time. To the best of our knowledge there are no studies of the latter kind. Using a unique panel data set for 2007-08 and 2009-10 for the Indian state of Rajasthan this paper analyzes the transitions into and out of the National Rural Employment Guarantee. It models the impact of such transitions on earnings of workers as well the determinants of such transitions. Several policy conclusions are also advanced.

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  • Raghbendra Jha & Raghav Gaiha & Manoj K. Pandey & Shylashri Shankar, 2011. "Switches into and out of NREGS — A panel data analysis for Rajasthan," ASARC Working Papers 2011-02, The Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre.
    • Handle: RePEc:pas:asarcc:2011-02
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    Keywords

    National Rural Employment Guarantee; Panel data; labor earnings;
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    JEL classification:

    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
    • J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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