I mostly view welfare recipients as rational parasites and not as lazy.<p>The title of the paper is misleading and the entire paper is flawed.<p>No one claims welfare impacts labor participation without looking at the pre-condition for receiving welfare. Surely send a check to my home every month, I wont leave my job because of that.<p>However if I am earning $100 and hour and if the pre-condition to get welfare check of $80 is that I should earn less than $150, will I spend time and energy upgrading my skills for a job that pays $160 ? If I am smart I wont.<p>It is an idiotic exercise to measure labor participation without factoring the pre-conditions for receiving welfare checks.<p>India&#x27;s large scale MNREGS did not impact work hours of Individuals in the country. It only drove the rural wages up. The social security for uncared senior citizens in some states however tells a different story. More and more old people were dumped by their children because being uncared was a precondition for receiving welfare.