| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21837 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21837 |
| Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia | |
| Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Jordan C. Kyle; Benjamin A. Olken; Sudarno Sumarto | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-01-04 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-contractible quality will decline and that reform could be blocked by vested interests exactly where potential gains are greatest. We examine these issues by conducting a randomized field experiment in 572 Indonesian localities in which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice distribution program. This led 17 percent of treated locations to switch distributors. Introducing the possibility of outsourcing led to a 4.6 percent reduction in the markup paid by households. Quality did not suffer and, if anything, households reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had relevant experience as traders, even if they proposed slightly higher prices. Mandating higher levels of competition by encouraging additional bidders further reduced prices. We document offsetting effects of having high rents at baseline: when the initial price charged was high and when baseline satisfaction levels were low, entry was higher and committees were more likely to replace the status quo distributor; but, incumbents measured to be more dishonest on an experimental measure of cheating were also more likely to block the outsourcing process. We find no effect on price or quality of providing information about program functioning without the opportunity to privatize, implying that the observed effect was not solely due to increased transparency. On net, the results suggest that contracting out has the potential to improve performance, though the magnitude of the effects may be partially muted due to push back from powerful elites. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21837 |
| 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/579511 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Abhijit Banerjee,Rema Hanna,Jordan C. Kyle,et al. Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia. 2016. |
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| w21837.pdf（376KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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