Welfare and poverty impacts of India’s national rural employment guarantee scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu ()

No 1289, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realized thus has important policy implications. We use a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short- and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of NREGS. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase consumption (protein and energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more nonfinancial assets in the medium term.

Keywords: employment; social safety nets; rural areas; Economic development; social policies; Public investment; Labor market; Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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