Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.
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DOI：
10.1257/aer.102.4.1206
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2012-06
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Tobias J
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作者：
Alatas V;Banerjee A;Hanna R;Olken BA;Tobias J
本文报道了一项在640个印尼村庄进行的针对穷人的三种方法的实验：代理手段测试（PMT），其中资产被用来预测消费;社区目标，村民从最富有到最贫穷排列每个人;和混合。定义贫困的基础上PPP $2人均消费，社区定位和混合执行稍差，在确定穷人比PMT，虽然不足以显着影响贫困的结果为一个典型的计划。精英捕获并不能解释这些结果。相反，社区似乎采用了不同的贫困概念。与这一发现相一致，社区定位导致更高的满意度。
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.