dc.contributor.author | Alatas, Vivi | |
dc.contributor.author | Banerjee, Abhijit | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-07T17:59:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-07T17:59:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-06 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-8282 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1944-7981 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74587 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | American Economic Association | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.4.1206 | en_US |
dc.rights | Article 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.source | Banerjee via Kate McNeill | en_US |
dc.title | Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Alatas, 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.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics | en_US |
dc.contributor.approver | Banerjee, Abhijit | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Banerjee, Abhijit | |
dc.relation.journal | American Economic Review | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A; Tobias, Julia | en |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088 | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |