| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19999 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19999 |
| Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India | |
| Karthik Muralidharan; Paul Niehaus; Sandip Sukhtankar | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-03-20 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely to targeted beneficiaries. We evaluate the impact of biometrically-authenticated payments infrastructure ("Smartcards") on beneficiaries of employment (NREGS) and pension (SSP) programs in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, using a large-scale experiment that randomized the rollout of Smartcards over 158 sub- districts and 19 million people. We find that, while incompletely implemented, the new system delivered a faster, more predictable, and less corrupt NREGS payments process without adversely affecting program access. For each of these outcomes, treatment group distributions first-order stochastically dominated those of the control group. The investment was cost-effective, as time savings to NREGS beneficiaries alone were equal to the cost of the intervention, and there was also a significant reduction in the "leakage" of funds between the government and beneficiaries in both NREGS and SSP programs. Beneficiaries overwhelmingly preferred the new system for both programs. Overall, our results suggest that investing in secure payments infrastructure can significantly enhance "state capacity" to implement welfare programs in developing countries. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19999 |
| 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/577673 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karthik Muralidharan,Paul Niehaus,Sandip Sukhtankar. Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India. 2014. |
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