Administrative Exclusion of Inactive Work Scheme Beneficiaries

In Simple Words

This is like upgrading a school communications portal but sending setup instructions only to students currently sitting in class today. Former students who stepped away temporarily are left completely out of the loop and face steep hurdles attempting to re-enroll.

Research question

Government transitions to digital direct deposits often focus enrollment exclusively on active participants, inadvertently cutting off former female workers who previously relied on state employment.

Participants

9,600 households across 480 Gram Panchayats in 90 blocks of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Study Design

Observational baseline mapping within a clustered RCT, tracking administrative enrollment bottlenecks across former program participants.

Results

Digital direct deposit migration focused predominantly on recent workers, excluding former female laborers despite one-third of surveyed women having previously requested program work and 75% expressing a desire to work.

Takeaway

Execute targeted administrative outreach drives specifically aimed at former program beneficiaries to re-link inactive account holders to digital wage delivery systems.

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Plain-English glossary

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Baseline

The starting measurements in a study. Researchers use these to compare what participants were like at the start with what happens later.

ExampleBefore a training programme starts, researchers measure workers’ earnings. That first measurement is the baseline.

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Randomized controlled trial

A study that uses chance, like drawing lots, to decide who receives each option being compared. Researchers compare the groups’ outcomes to estimate the effect of those options.

ExampleA lottery assigns volunteers to a training programme or a comparison group. Researchers then compare their outcomes.

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