Title: Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Type Dataset Alatas, Vivi, Banerjee, Abhijit, Hanna, Rema, Olken, Benjamin, Tobias, Julia (2013): Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/M7SKQZ

Authors: Alatas, Vivi (World Bank) ; Banerjee, Abhijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Hanna, Rema (Harvard University) ; Olken, Benjamin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Tobias, Julia (Stanford University) ; Alatas, Vivi (World Bank) ; Banerjee, Abhijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Hanna, Rema (Harvard University) ; Olken, Benjamin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ; Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ;

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Summary

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.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/M7SKQZ

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2013
• Issued: January 07, 2013
• Submitted: January 07, 2013
• Updated: March 31, 2020

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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