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mgnregs
4 findings
Labour & employmentBaseline Work HeterogeneityLabor force participation increases across public and private sectors were largest among women who had not previously worked for MGNREGS and whose husbands held conservative gender views.RCTDevelopmentEconomic Targeting for Social Norm ShiftStructuring public wage payments through female-owned bank accounts and training led to a 0.08–0.09 standard deviation liberalization in the perceived gender norms index without direct norm messaging campaigns.RCTFinance & microfinanceFinancial Literacy Kiosk TrainingLabor market participation and financial autonomy gains were concentrated exclusively among women who received both direct deposits and financial training, whereas bank account provision alone yielded negligible impact.RCTDevelopmentGender-Targeted Direct Wage DepositThree years after implementation, average total wage deposits reached US$66 at contemporary exchange rates (equivalent to annual average wage earnings), and assignment to full treatment yielded a 0.12 standard deviation increase in the female banking autonomy index.RCT