NBER Digest: Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India

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Dozens of nations in recent years have implemented programs guaranteeing employment on public works projects – workfare – in an effort to reduce poverty. In Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India (NBER Working Paper No. 21543), Manisha Shah and Bryce Millett Steinberg examine the impact on human capital investment of one of the world’s largest workfare programs, India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).