Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200363 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2017-14
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This work is a contribution, first, toward measuring rural institu- tions taking multidimensional networks of socio-economic interactions in villages as the primitive and then toward exploring impacts of such institutions on household-access to a public employment programme: MGNREGS in India. Our focus is on the institution of clientelism- patronage-the presence and intensity of that. Using primary data we identify the presence of patron-client relationships, show that clients have better access to MGNREGS employment than non-clients and a household in elite-villages has higher access to MGNREGS employment. Complementary to our empirical exercises, we construct and analyze a theoretical model supporting our empirical findings.
Subjects: 
Clientelism
Network
MGNREGS
JEL: 
O12
P47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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