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Can workfare programs moderate conflict? Evidence from India
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Fetzer, Thiemo (2020) Can workfare programs moderate conflict? Evidence from India. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18 (16). pp. 3337-3375. jvz062. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvz062 ISSN 1542-4766.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz062
Abstract
Can public interventions persistently reduce conflict? Adverse weather shocks, through their impact on incomes, have been identified as robust drivers of conflict in many contexts. An effective social insurance system moderates the impact of adverse shocks on household incomes, and hence, could attenuate the link between these shocks and conflict. This paper shows that a public employment program in India, by providing an alternative source of income through a guarantee of 100 days of employment at minimum wages, effectively provides insurance. This has an indirect pacifying effect. By weakening the link between productivity shocks and incomes, the program uncouples productivity shocks from conflict, leading persistently lower conflict levels.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social security -- India, Conflict management, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (India), Insurgency | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the European Economic Association | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1542-4766 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | December 2020 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 16 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3337-3375 | ||||||||||||
Article Number: | jvz062 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvz062 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the European Economic Association following peer review. The version of record Thiemo Fetzer, Can Workfare Programs Moderate Conflict? Evidence from India, Journal of the European Economic Association, , jvz062, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz062 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz062 | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 February 2020 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 February 2022 | ||||||||||||
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