Title: Replication Data for: Private Information and the Allocation of Land Use Subsidies in Malawi

Type Dataset Jack, Kelsey (2018): Replication Data for: Private Information and the Allocation of Land Use Subsidies in Malawi. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/SMU6PT

Authors: Jack, Kelsey (Tufts University) ; Jack, Kelsey (Tufts University) ;

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Summary

Efficient targeting of public programs is difficult when the cost or benefit to potential recipients is private information. This study illustrates the potential of self-selection to improve allocational outcomes in the context of a program that subsidizes tree planting in Malawi. Landholders who received a tree planting contract as a result of bidding in an auction kept significantly more trees alive over a three year period than did landholders who received the contract through a lottery. The gains from targeting on private information through the auction represent a 30 percent cost savings per surviving tree for the implementing organization.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/SMU6PT

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: June 21, 2018
• Updated: April 02, 2020

Rights

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

Format

electronic resource

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