A Tale of Two Programs
This article 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 socioeconomic outcomes. In most cases, ignoring SGRY underestimates NREGA’s impact by 30–40 percent.
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This article 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 socioeconomic
outcomes. In most cases, ignoring SGRY underestimates
NREGA’s impact by 30–40 percent. |
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