Calendrier du 20 septembre 2017
Development Economics Seminar
Du 20/09/2017 de 16:30 à 18:00
salle R2-01, campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
SUKHTANTAR Sandip (University of Virginia )
General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
écrit avec Karthik Muralidharany and Paul Niehausz
Abstract
Public employment programs play a large role in many developing countries' anti-poverty
strategies, but their impact on poverty reduction will depend on both direct program effects
as well as indirect effects through changes induced in market wages and employment. We
estimate both e ects, exploiting a large-scale experiment that improved the implementation of
India's rural employment guarantee scheme. Despite constant scal outlays, the earnings of lowincome
households rose 13.3%, driven overwhelmingly by market (90%) as opposed to program
earnings (10%). Low-skilled wages increased by 6.1% and days without paid work fell 7.1%,
while migration, land utilization and prices were una ected. The market effects on wages,
employment, and income also spilled over into neighboring sub-districts, and estimates that
adjust for these spillovers are substantially larger, typically double the unadjusted magnitudes.
These results highlight the importance of general equilibrium e ects in program evaluation, and
the feasibility of studying them using large-scale experiments.
Economic History Seminar
Du 20/09/2017 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R2-20, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
ASANTE Kofi (IAAST)
Fiscal Imperative and Colonial Power in the 19th Century Gold Coast