Net transfer benefits under India's rural employment guarantee scheme

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj

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Net transfer benefits under India's rural employment guarantee scheme

Date

2012

Authors

Jha, Raghbendra

Gaiha, Raghav

Pandey, Manoj

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

This paper explores the important but relatively neglected issue of real income transfers, net of the opportunity cost of time, under India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. We use representative household level primary data for three states,