The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education
Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to study the effects on enrollment in schools and child labor. Introduction of MGNREGA results in lower relative school enrollment in treated districts. The authors find that the drop in enrollment is driven by primary school children. Children in higher grades are just as likely to attend school under MGNREGA, but their school performance deteriorates. Using nationally representative employment data, they find evidence indicating an increase in child labor highlighting the unintentional perverse effects of the employment guarantee schemes for Human capital.
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dig-okr-10986331552024-08-09T06:34:26Z The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education Li, Tianshu Sekhri, Sheetal POVERTY REDUCTION EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE CHILD LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PRIMARY EDUCATION Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to study the effects on enrollment in schools and child labor. Introduction of MGNREGA results in lower relative school enrollment in treated districts. The authors find that the drop in enrollment is driven by primary school children. Children in higher grades are just as likely to attend school under MGNREGA, but their school performance deteriorates. Using nationally representative employment data, they find evidence indicating an increase in child labor highlighting the unintentional perverse effects of the employment guarantee schemes for Human capital. 2020-01-09T18:05:51Z 2020-01-09T18:05:51Z 2020-01 Working Paper Document de travail Documento de trabajo http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/891701578410026037/The-Spillovers-of-Employment-Guarantee-Programs-on-Child-Labor-and-Education https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33155 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9106 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC |
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Many developing countries use employment
guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines
the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for
the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the
phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to
study the effects on enrollment in schools and child labor.
Introduction of MGNREGA results in lower relative school
enrollment in treated districts. The authors find that the
drop in enrollment is driven by primary school children.
Children in higher grades are just as likely to attend
school under MGNREGA, but their school performance
deteriorates. Using nationally representative employment
data, they find evidence indicating an increase in child
labor highlighting the unintentional perverse effects of the
employment guarantee schemes for Human capital. |
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Li, Tianshu Sekhri, Sheetal |
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Li, Tianshu Sekhri, Sheetal |
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The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education |
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The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education |
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The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education |
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The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education |
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