| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21543 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21543 |
| Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India | |
| Manisha Shah; Bryce Millett Steinberg | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-09-14 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor demand, it could increase the opportunity cost of schooling, lowering human capital investment even as incomes increase. We exploit the staged rollout of the program across districts for causal identification. Using a household survey of test scores and schooling outcomes for approximately 2.5 million rural children in India, we show that each year of exposure to NREGS decreases school enrollment by 2 percentage points and math scores by 2% of a standard deviation amongst children aged 13-16. In addition, while the impacts of NREGS on human capital are similar for boys and girls, adolescent boys are primarily substituting into market work when they leave school while adolescent girls are substituting into unpaid domestic work. We find mixed results for younger children. We conclude that anti-poverty programs which raise wages could have the unintended effect of lowering human capital investment. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21543 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579218 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Manisha Shah,Bryce Millett Steinberg. Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India. 2015. |
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