Net Transfer Benefit under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Manoj K. Pandey

ASARC Working Papers from The Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre

Abstract: This paper explores the important but relatively neglected issue of real income transfers, net of the opportunity cost of time, under India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. We use representative household level primary data for three states, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra to depict various individual and social characteristics of the population in these states as well as those of the participants in the NREGS. We also model the stochastic dominance comparisons of the log of per capita monthly expenditures of participants with and without alternative employment opportunities in the absence of NREG as well as the determinants of such opportunities. As an approximate measure of the net transfer benefits under NREGS, we consider shares of NREG earnings net of the opportunity cost of time in household income net of NREG earnings net of the opportunity cost of time. The distribution of such net transfers across household characteristics as well as the distribution of benefits across villages in the three states are also discussed. In general net transfers under the NREGS are quite modest.

Keywords: National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme; Net Transfer benefit; stochastic dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 D33 D60 J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2010
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