Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experi- ment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted ben...

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Main Authors: Kyle, Jordan, Sumarto, Sudarno, Banerjee, Abhijit, Hanna, Rema N., Olken, Benjamin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117186
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9923-6088
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631