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...
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2012/11/01
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS6272
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2012/11/01
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Evaluating workfare when the work is unpleasant : evidence for India's national rural employment guarantee scheme
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consumption
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