The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education

Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This study 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 Guara...

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Main Authors:	Li, Tianshu, Sekhri, Sheetal
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	RURAL EMPLOYMENT CHILD LABOR EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE HUMAN CAPITAL
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36076

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spelling	okr-10986-360762021-08-07T05:10:27Z The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education Li, Tianshu Sekhri, Sheetal RURAL EMPLOYMENT CHILD LABOR EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE HUMAN CAPITAL Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This study 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. It also finds 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, the study finds evidence indicating an increase in child labor highlighting the unintentional perverse effects of the employment guarantee schemes for human capital. 2021-08-06T20:43:54Z 2021-08-06T20:43:54Z 2020-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36076 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article South Asia India
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description	Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This study 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. It also finds 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, the study finds evidence indicating an increase in child labor highlighting the unintentional perverse effects of the employment guarantee schemes for human capital.
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author	Li, Tianshu Sekhri, Sheetal
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title	The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education
title_short	The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education
title_full	The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education
title_fullStr	The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education
title_full_unstemmed	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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