Impact of the NREGS on Children’s Intellectual Human Capital
利用面板数据研究印度最大公共就业计划对儿童学习成果的积极影响，发现该计划在短期和中期内显著提升了儿童的年级进步、阅读、写作、数学和词汇测试成绩。
This paper uses panel data from the Young Lives Survey to examine the effect of the world's largest public works program and India's flagship social protection program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), on children's learning outcomes such as grade progression, reading comprehension test scores, writing test scores, math test scores, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. We find that the program has strong positive effects on these outcomes in both the short-and-medium run. Finally, the impact estimates reported here are robust to a number of econometric concerns such as -program placement, selective attrition, and type I error.