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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

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dc.contributor.authorLagrange, Arthur Alik
dc.contributor.authorRavallion, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T21:55:10Z
dc.date.available2013-01-04T21:55:10Z
dc.date.issued2012-11
dc.description.abstractPrevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have relied solely on household consumption per person as the measure of economic welfare. The paper generalizes this measure to allow for the disutility of casual manual work. The new measure is calibrated to the distribution of the preference parameters implied by maximization of an idiosyncratic welfare function assuming that there is no rationing of the available work. The adjustment implies a substantially more "poor-poor" incidence of participation in the scheme than suggested by past methods. However, the overall impacts on poverty are lower, although still positive. The main conclusions are robust to a wide range of alternative parameter values and to allowing for involuntary unemployment using a sample of (self-declared) un-rationed workers.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/16981158/evaluating-workfare-work-unpleasant-evidence-indias-national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-6272
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/12113
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; No. 6272
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectADULT MALE
dc.subjectANTI-POVERTY
dc.subjectANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM
dc.subjectBASE YEAR
dc.subjectCHANGES IN POVERTY
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
dc.subjectDAILY WAGE
dc.subjectDECOMPOSABLE POVERTY
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME
dc.subjectFAMINE
dc.subjectFARM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectFARMER
dc.subjectFUNCTIONAL FORMS
dc.subjectGINI COEFFICIENT
dc.subjectGROSS WAGES
dc.subjectHIGH WAGE
dc.subjectHIGHER INEQUALITY
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SIZE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subjectIMPACT ON POVERTY
dc.subjectINCIDENCE OF POVERTY
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectINCOME GAINS
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectINEQUALITY MEASURES
dc.subjectINVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectJOBS
dc.subjectLABOR MARKETS
dc.subjectLABOR SUPPLY
dc.subjectLABOUR
dc.subjectLORENZ CURVE
dc.subjectMANUAL LABOR
dc.subjectMEASUREMENT OF POVERTY
dc.subjectMINIMUM WAGE
dc.subjectPOOR
dc.subjectPOOR COUNTRIES
dc.subjectPOOR PEOPLE
dc.subjectPOORER PEOPLE
dc.subjectPOVERTY GAP
dc.subjectPOVERTY IMPACT
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINE
dc.subjectPOVERTY LINES
dc.subjectPOVERTY MEASURES
dc.subjectPOVERTY PROGRAMS
dc.subjectPOVERTY RATE
dc.subjectPRIVATE MARKET
dc.subjectPRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subjectPSE
dc.subjectPUBLIC SPENDING
dc.subjectPUBLIC WORKS
dc.subjectREAL WAGE
dc.subjectREGULAR JOB
dc.subjectRIGHT TO WORK
dc.subjectRURAL
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectRURAL EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectRURAL HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectRURAL LABOR
dc.subjectRURAL LABOR MARKET
dc.subjectRURAL POOR
dc.subjectRURAL POVERTY
dc.subjectRURAL PUBLIC
dc.subjectSELF-EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROGRAMS
dc.subjectSQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX
dc.subjectSUPPLIERS
dc.subjectTARGETING
dc.subjectTOTAL WAGES
dc.subjectTRANSFER BENEFITS
dc.subjectUNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectWAGE INCREASE
dc.subjectWAGE RATE
dc.subjectWAGES
dc.subjectWEALTH
dc.subjectWELFARE INDICATOR
dc.subjectWELFARE MEASURE
dc.subjectWORKERS
dc.subjectWORKING DAYS
dc.titleEvaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemeen
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okr.crossref.titleEvaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant: Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
okr.date.disclosure2012-11-01
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T12:13:23.790508Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/16981158/evaluating-workfare-work-unpleasant-evidence-indias-national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme
okr.globalpracticeMacroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpracticeSocial Protection and Labor
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.guid154421468259466159
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-6272
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000158349_20121120153304
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum16981158
okr.identifier.reportWPS6272
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryIndia
okr.sectorHealth and other social services :: Other social services
okr.themeEconomic management :: Analysis of economic growth
okr.themeSocial protection and risk management :: Poverty strategy, analysis and monitoring
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicServices & Transfers to Poor
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topicEconomic Theory & Research
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth
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