46: Unintended consequences: How workfare programmes may fuel school dropouts in India

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Despite evidence of increasing household wages, anti-poverty schemes in India can have an adverse effect by lowering human capital investment Read “Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India” by Manisha Shah and Bryce Millet Steinberg here (http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/10/07/jhr.56.2.1117-9201R2.abstract) .