ABSTRACT

We evaluate the impacts of a road rehabilitation workfare project in Nicaragua. Our results reveal that the substitution of labour-intensive manual paving of dirt roads for commercial paving technology did not undermine the primary goal of increasing access to a paved road, which grew by 16.4 percentage points. The project did not increase overall employment, but was associated with an increase in working as a labourer; though, we do not find specific substitution away from agriculture or self-employment as identified in other work. We also find impacts on education and health, extending similar findings from African and Asian regions.

中文翻译：

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在尼加拉瓜农村的道路改善项目中优先考虑创造就业机会而不破坏公共工程建设

摘要

我们评估了尼加拉瓜道路修复工作项目的影响。我们的结果表明，用劳动密集型手工铺设土路替代商业铺设技术并没有破坏增加铺设道路的主要目标，该目标增长了 16.4 个百分点。该项目并没有增加整体就业，但与劳动力工作的增加有关；但是，我们没有发现其他工作中确定的农业或自营职业之外的具体替代品。我们还发现了对教育和健康的影响，扩展了非洲和亚洲地区的类似发现。