The Association Between Participation in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program and Smoking in India

Background This paper examines whether participating in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (NREGA) is associated with the likelihood of smoking among program participants in India. Methods We use two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) estimation method and two waves of India Human Development Surveys completed before (2005) and after (2012) NREGA implementation. Results The likelihood of smoking increased with NREGA...