''Capture'' of anti-poverty programs: An analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program in India §

By R. Jha, S. Bhattacharyya, R. Gaiha, Shylashri Shankar. 2009

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Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment? (2012, methodology): “Shariff is careful in interpreting the results though the same inferential concerns hold as for the study by Jha et al. 13 Household quintiles were drawn after correcting per capita consumption for cost-of-living differences across states using the price defl ators implicit in the Tendulkar poverty ”
Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh (2013, background): “…consistent with the finding that access to information significantly affected poor people’s ability to benefit from the program (Jha, Bhattacharyya, and Gaiha 2011b), and the presence of a positive association between landholding and NREGS that results in less poverty targeting (Jha et al. 2009).”
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2017, background): “, 2011; Jha et al., 2009). Cole (2009) finds large electoral cycles in the provision of agricultural credit.”