Utilising household-level data, this paper investigates the impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on financial inclusion. Exploiting the staggered timing of the roll-out of the programme across districts, while controlling for its non-random implementation, it is found that MGNREGS improves financial access. This is confirmed in simple univariate tests as well as in multivariate regressions that take into account several district- and household-level controls.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/did-mgnregs-improve-financial-inclusion
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/saibal-ghosh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme-nregs
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