Does working with spouses make teams more productive? A field experiment in India using NREGA

Alistair Munro, Arjan Verschoor and Amaresh Dubey

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 3, 506-508

Abstract: In Uttar Pradesh, teams of four are engaged to dig soil under the NREGA programme. In one treatment spouses work together; in the other treatment they work in separate teams. Working with spouses is associated with significantly higher output.

Keywords: Marriage; Household experiment; India; NREGA; Labor productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 D1 D7 M5 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.12.026

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