The impact of India's rural employment guarantee on demand for agricultural technology

This paper investigates whether this increase in the opportunity cost of agricultural labor incentivizes farm owners to adopt labor-saving agricultural technology. Using a regression discontinuity design and new Indian agricultural census data, this paper finds that NREGA causes a shift of roughly 2...

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Main Author:	Bhargava, Anil K.
Format:	Artículo preliminar
Language:	Inglés
Published:	International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
Subjects:	technology adoption labour market employment welfare social protection agricultural development subsidies poverty social safety nets rural areas
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150371