Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

This paper investigates how elite capture affects the welfare gains from targeted government transfer programs in Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and nonexperimental data on a variety of existing government programs. While the relatives...

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Main Authors: Alatas, Vivi, Banerjee, Abhijit, Hanna, Rema, Olken, Benjamin, Purnamasari, Ririn, Wai-Poi, Matthew
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124285

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124285

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