Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

被引：211

作者：

Alatas, Vivi ^{[1
]}

Banerjee, Abhijit ^{[2
]}

Hanna, Rema ^{[3
]}

Olken, Benjamin A. ^{[2
]}

Tobias, Julia ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] World Bank, Jakarta, Indonesia

[2] MIT, Dept Econ, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA

[3] JFK Sch Govt, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[4] Stanford Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

来源：

AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2012年 / 102卷 / 04期

关键词：

ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAM; DECENTRALIZATION; TRANSFERS;

D O I：

10.1257/aer.102.4.1206

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

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. (JEL C93, I32, I38, O12, O15, O18, R23)

引用

页码：1206 / 1240

页数：35

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Alatas Vivi., 2012, American Economic Review

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