Determinants of Employment in India's 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: Using household level data this paper provides systematic evidence on the employment impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in three Indian states: Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. We model this as a two stage Heckman procedure where we model selection for NREGS in the first phase and the determinants of hours worked in the second. A number of significant insights into the employment impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme are obtained.

Keywords: National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme; Heckman Models; Asia; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C34 I32 J21 J43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2010
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