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

Prevailing 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,...

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Main Authors: Lagrange, Arthur Alik, Ravallion, Martin
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/16981158/evaluating-workfare-work-unpleasant-evidence-indias-national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12113