Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee

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Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India (2019, background): “(2000); Kehoe and Perri (2002); Krueger and Perri (2006); Abraham and Laczo (2016).”
Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis (2018, background): “See Imbert and Papp (2015) for a discussion of how NREGA affects market wages.”
Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Development: Evidence from India (2016, background): “Growing research on NREGS has examined the impact of the program on socioeconomic outcomes such as wages and employment (Dutta et al. 2014, 2012; Imbert and Papp 2015), fund allocation (Banerjee et al. 2014; Gupta and Mukhopadhyay 2014), and political violence (Fetzer 2014; Khanna and Zimmermann…”
Recent Social Security Initiatives in India (2017, neutral): “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).”