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dc.contributor.authorAlatas, Vivi
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Abhijit
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-07T17:59:15Z
dc.date.available2012-11-07T17:59:15Z
dc.date.issued2012-06
dc.identifier.issn0002-8282
dc.identifier.issn1944-7981
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74587
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Economic Associationen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.4.1206en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceBanerjee via Kate McNeillen_US
dc.titleTargeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationAlatas, Vivi et al. “Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.” American Economic Review 102.4 (2012): 1206–1240.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economicsen_US
dc.contributor.approverBanerjee, Abhijit
dc.contributor.mitauthorBanerjee, Abhijit
dc.relation.journalAmerican Economic Reviewen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsAlatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A; Tobias, Juliaen
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US
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