| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15980 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15980 |
| Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia | |
| Vivi Alatas; Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Julia Tobias | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-05-13 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is challenging because the government lacks information about people's incomes. This paper reports the results of a field experiment conducted in 640 Indonesian villages that investigated two main approaches to solving this problem: proxy-means tests, where a census of hard-to-hide assets is used to predict consumption, and community-based targeting, where villagers rank everyone on a scale from richest to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that community-based targeting performs worse in identifying the poor than proxy-means tests, particularly near the threshold. This worse performance does not appear to be due to elite capture. Instead, communities appear to be using a different concept of poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and with villagers' self-assessments of their own status than per-capita expenditure. Consistent with this, the community-based methods result in higher satisfaction with beneficiary lists and the targeting process. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15980 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573654 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Vivi Alatas,Abhijit Banerjee,Rema Hanna,et al. Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia. 2010. |
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