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Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

The American economic review, 2012-06, Vol.102 (4), p.1206-1240 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Author: Alatas, Vivi ; Banerjee, Abhijit ; Hanna, Rema ; Olken, Benjamin A. ; Tobias, Julia
Subjects: Communities ; Community ; Community satisfaction ; Consumer economics ; Consumption ; Consumption per capita ; Consumption theory ; Developing countries ; Diplomatic & consular services ; Economic inequality ; Economic systems ; Economic theory ; Error rates ; Experiments ; Field work ; Group facilitation ; Household consumption ; Households ; Indonesia ; Informal economy ; LDCs ; Methods ; Per capita ; Poor ; Poverty ; Poverty alleviation ; Poverty line ; Predetermined motion time systems ; Rural communities ; Social policy ; Socioeconomic factors ; Studies ; Villages
Is Part Of: The American economic review, 2012-06, Vol.102 (4), p.1206-1240
Description: This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets are used to predict consumption; community targeting, where villagers rank everyone from richest to poorest; and a hybrid. Defining poverty based on PPP$2 per capita consumption, community targeting and the hybrid perform somewhat worse in identifying the poor than PMT, though not by enough to significantly affect poverty outcomes for a typical program. Elite capture does not explain these results. Instead, communities appear to apply a different concept of poverty. Consistent with this finding, community targeting results in higher satisfaction.
Publisher: United States: American Economic Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0002-8282
EISSN: 1944-7981
DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.4.1206
PMID: 25197099
CODEN: AENRAA
Source: ProQuest Central

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