Replication data for: Targeting with Agents
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Paul Niehaus; Antonia Atanassova; Marianne Bertrand; Sendhil Mullainathan
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Project Citation:
Niehaus, Paul, Atanassova, Antonia, Bertrand, Marianne, and Mullainathan, Sendhil. Replication data for: Targeting with Agents. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114809V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Targeting assistance to the poor is a central problem in development.
We study the problem of designing a proxy means test when
the implementing agent is corruptible. Conditioning on more poverty
indicators may worsen targeting in this environment because of
a novel tradeoff between statistical accuracy and enforceability. We
then test necessary conditions for this tradeoff using data on Below
Poverty Line card allocation in India. Less eligible households pay
larger bribes and are less likely to obtain cards, but widespread rule
violations yield a de facto allocation much less progressive than the
de jure one. Enforceability appears to matter. (JEL D12, I32, I38,
O12, O15)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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