Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

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Klaus Deininger

World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC); World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Yanyan Liu

World Bank

Date Written: July 1, 2013

Abstract

This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase consumption (protein and energy intake) in the short run and accumulate more nonfinancial assets in the medium term. Direct benefits exceed program-related transfers and are most pronounced for scheduled castes and tribes and households supplying casual labor. Asset creation via program-induced land improvements is consistent with a medium-term increase in assets by nonparticipants and increases in wage income in excess of program cost.

Keywords: Housing & Human Habitats, Rural Poverty Reduction, Labor Policies, Labor Markets, Poverty Monitoring & Analysis

Suggested Citation

Deininger, Klaus and Liu, Yanyan, Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh (July 1, 2013). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6543, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2298481

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Yanyan Liu

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