Can rural public works affect agricultural wages? Evidence from India

By Erlend Berg, S. Bhattacharyya, R. Durgam, M. Ramachandra. 2012

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Recent Social Security Initiatives in India (2017, unknown): “In itself, this pattern does not establish that NREGA was the driving force behind the acceleration of wage growth, but several econometric studies confirm that the programme had a substantial impact on rural wages (Azam, 2011; Berg et al., 2012; Imbert and Papp, 2015b; Muralidharan et al., 2016).”
Exploring Universal Basic Income: A Guide to Navigating Concepts, Evidence, and Practices (2019, background): “Berg et al. (2012) show a 5.3 percent increase in the real daily agricultural wage rate across India due to the NREGS. The authors find that the program mainly affects the wages of unskilled laborers, and the wage effects are stronger in districts where the program was first rolled out. Azam (2012) ”
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, background): “See Berg et al. (2013), who also notes that public works programs have been common historically in countries now rich. The English Poor Law of 1834 required that the poor should reside in a `workhouse' in order to receive welfare, and British administrators in colonial India frequently used public w”
Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh (2013, background): “Results from this analysis suggest that the program affects unskilled wages but leaves the gender wage gap unaffected (Berg et al. 2012).”