Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Julia Tobias

NBER Working Paper No. 15980
Issued in May 2010

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We thank Ritwik Sarkar, Prani Sastiono, Ririn Purnamasari, Hendratno Tuhiman, Matthew Wai-Poi, Chaeruddin Kodir, and Octavia Foarta for outstanding research assistance. We thank Mitra Samya, the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics, and SurveyMeter for their cooperation implementing the project. Most of all we thank Lina Marliani for her exceptional work leading the field implementation teams and data analysis. Funding for this project came from a World Bank – Royal Netherlands Embassy trust fund. All views expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Mitra Samya, the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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