Female labour-force participation and child education in India: the effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) of India requires one-third of the beneficiaries to be women, and equal wages to be paid to female and male participants. We study its impact on children’s educational attainment via women’s increased access to labour-market opp...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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Young Lives
2013
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