Drivers of Productivity in India's Rural Workfare Program: Examining the Dynamic Effects of the Social Audit in Jharkhand

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Brief Overview

This paper studies the dynamic effects of an audit of a public program in India. It disentangles the effect of the threat of an audit from the effect of the audit itself, and finds that improvements in performance generally dissipate with time.

Author

• Wendy Wong, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy