Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme,...
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okr-10986-121132021-04-23T14:02:59Z Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Lagrange, Arthur Alik Ravallion, Martin ADULT MALE ANTI-POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM BASE YEAR CHANGES IN POVERTY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE DAILY WAGE DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME FAMINE FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARMER FUNCTIONAL FORMS GINI COEFFICIENT GROSS WAGES HIGH WAGE HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS IMPACT ON POVERTY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GAINS INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURES INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT JOBS LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LABOUR LORENZ CURVE MANUAL LABOR MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MINIMUM WAGE POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POORER PEOPLE POVERTY GAP POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY RATE PRIVATE MARKET PRIVATE SECTOR PSE PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC WORKS REAL WAGE REGULAR JOB RIGHT TO WORK RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL EMPLOYMENT RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET RURAL POOR RURAL POVERTY RURAL PUBLIC SELF-EMPLOYMENT SOCIAL PROGRAMS SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX SUPPLIERS TARGETING TOTAL WAGES TRANSFER BENEFITS UNEMPLOYMENT WAGE INCREASE WAGE RATE WAGES WEALTH WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE MEASURE WORKERS WORKING DAYS Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have relied solely on household consumption per person as the measure of economic welfare. The paper generalizes this measure to allow for the disutility of casual manual work. The new measure is calibrated to the distribution of the preference parameters implied by maximization of an idiosyncratic welfare function assuming that there is no rationing of the available work. The adjustment implies a substantially more "poor-poor" incidence of participation in the scheme than suggested by past methods. However, the overall impacts on poverty are lower, although still positive. The main conclusions are robust to a wide range of alternative parameter values and to allowing for involuntary unemployment using a sample of (self-declared) un-rationed workers. 2013-01-04T21:55:10Z 2013-01-04T21:55:10Z 2012-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/16981158/evaluating-workfare-work-unpleasant-evidence-indias-national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12113 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6272 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India |
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ADULT MALE ANTI-POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM BASE YEAR CHANGES IN POVERTY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE DAILY WAGE DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME FAMINE FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARMER FUNCTIONAL FORMS GINI COEFFICIENT GROSS WAGES HIGH WAGE HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS IMPACT ON POVERTY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GAINS INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURES INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT JOBS LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LABOUR LORENZ CURVE MANUAL LABOR MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MINIMUM WAGE POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POORER PEOPLE POVERTY GAP POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY RATE PRIVATE MARKET PRIVATE SECTOR PSE PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC WORKS REAL WAGE REGULAR JOB RIGHT TO WORK RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL EMPLOYMENT RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET RURAL POOR RURAL POVERTY RURAL PUBLIC SELF-EMPLOYMENT SOCIAL PROGRAMS SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX SUPPLIERS TARGETING TOTAL WAGES TRANSFER BENEFITS UNEMPLOYMENT WAGE INCREASE WAGE RATE WAGES WEALTH WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE MEASURE WORKERS WORKING DAYS |
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ADULT MALE ANTI-POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM BASE YEAR CHANGES IN POVERTY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE DAILY WAGE DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME FAMINE FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARMER FUNCTIONAL FORMS GINI COEFFICIENT GROSS WAGES HIGH WAGE HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS IMPACT ON POVERTY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME GAINS INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURES INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT JOBS LABOR MARKETS LABOR SUPPLY LABOUR LORENZ CURVE MANUAL LABOR MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MINIMUM WAGE POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POORER PEOPLE POVERTY GAP POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY RATE PRIVATE MARKET PRIVATE SECTOR PSE PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC WORKS REAL WAGE REGULAR JOB RIGHT TO WORK RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL EMPLOYMENT RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL LABOR RURAL LABOR MARKET RURAL POOR RURAL POVERTY RURAL PUBLIC SELF-EMPLOYMENT SOCIAL PROGRAMS SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX SUPPLIERS TARGETING TOTAL WAGES TRANSFER BENEFITS UNEMPLOYMENT WAGE INCREASE WAGE RATE WAGES WEALTH WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE MEASURE WORKERS WORKING DAYS Lagrange, Arthur Alik Ravallion, Martin Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
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Prevailing practices in evaluating
workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of
work done, with theoretically ambiguous implications for the
impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, past assessments have
relied solely on household consumption per person as the
measure of economic welfare. The paper generalizes this
measure to allow for the disutility of casual manual work.
The new measure is calibrated to the distribution of the
preference parameters implied by maximization of an
idiosyncratic welfare function assuming that there is no
rationing of the available work. The adjustment implies a
substantially more "poor-poor" incidence of
participation in the scheme than suggested by past methods.
However, the overall impacts on poverty are lower, although
still positive. The main conclusions are robust to a wide
range of alternative parameter values and to allowing for
involuntary unemployment using a sample of (self-declared)
un-rationed workers. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Lagrange, Arthur Alik Ravallion, Martin |
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Lagrange, Arthur Alik Ravallion, Martin |
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Lagrange, Arthur Alik |
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work Is Unpleasant : Evidence for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
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evaluating workfare when the work is unpleasant : evidence for india’s national rural employment guarantee scheme |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2013 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/16981158/evaluating-workfare-work-unpleasant-evidence-indias-national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12113 |
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