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Three Essays On Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Rakhe Balachandran
Three Essays On Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Rakhe Balachandran
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGs) is the largest public works program in the world with an objective to ensure rural livelihood security by generating employment through infrastructure projects. This thesis is comprised of three essays investigating the MGNREGs’ impact on rural communities and the labor market. The first essay examined the targeting accuracy of the program. I simultaneously controlled for the self-selection bias and endogeneity bias between poverty and program participation using an extended probit model. Using data from National Sample Survey (NSS) 2014, I find that households closer to the poverty line are more likely …