Data and Code for: Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intra-Household Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jorge Luis García, Department of Economics, Texas A&M University

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Project Citation:

García, Jorge Luis. Data and Code for: Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intra-Household Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2026. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-04-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/E218921V1

Project Description

Summary: I investigate the intra-household labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for saving. Despite sizable program-job take-up, the guarantee decreases participation in other working activities, and, thus, the labor force participation of married women and total time worked by their husbands. The guarantee accounts for up to 30% of a recent countrywide decrease in rural female labor force participation. Though it increases household consumption, the guarantee reduces the command of household earnings by women, and, thereby, their well-being.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: added-worker effect; family insurance; female labor force participation; guaranteed employment; intra-household bargaining power; poverty

JEL Classification:
      I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
      I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

Geographic Coverage: India, Southern Asia

Time Period(s): 2000 – 2012

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data; observational data; survey data

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