Mani Subha, Behrman Jere R, Galab Shaikh, Reddy P Prudhvikar
Department of Economics and Center for International Policy Studies, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA; Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; IZA, Bonn, Germany.
Economics and Sociology Departments and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
J Dev Stud. 2020;56(5):929-945. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1605055. Epub 2019 May 7.
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.
本文使用来自“青年生活调查”的面板数据，研究全球最大的公共工程项目以及印度的旗舰社会保护项目——全国农村就业保障计划（NREGS）对儿童学习成果的影响，这些成果包括年级进步、阅读理解测试分数、写作测试分数、数学测试分数以及皮博迪图片词汇测试（PPVT）分数。我们发现，该项目在短期和中期对这些成果都有强烈的积极影响。最后，此处报告的影响估计对一些计量经济学问题具有稳健性，如项目安置、选择性损耗和第一类错误。
