#public-policy
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- MGNREGA: The Regression That Held — and the State Where the Budget Line Goes to Zero
My graduate final project analyzed 740 Indian districts to test whether approved labor budget predicts rural women's paid workdays under MGNREGA. The correlation was strong (r ≈ .82–.86) and the diagnostics were honest. Then I looked at West Bengal, the one state whose funds were frozen — and had to decide exactly how much that chart was allowed to say.