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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Kyle, Jordan; Olken, Benjamin A.; Sumarto, Sudarno
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Harvard University; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/696226
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 451-491
• 关键词: field experiment; public funds; CORRUPTION; capture; Uganda; COSTS

摘要

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 experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted beneficiaries increases the subsidy they receive from a subsidized rice program. On net, beneficiaries received 26 percent more subsidy in card villages. Ineligible households received no less, so this represents substantially lower leakage.