Code for: Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rema Hanna, Harvard Kennedy School; Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Elan Satriawan, Gadjah Mada University and TNP2K; Sudarno Sumarto, SMERU and TNP2K

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Project Description

Summary:

We compare how in-kind food assistance and an electronic voucher-based program affect the delivery of aid in practice. The Government of Indonesia randomized across 105 districts the transition from in-kind rice to approximately equivalent electronic vouchers redeemable for rice and eggs at a network of private agents. Targeted households received 46 percent more assistance in voucher areas. For the bottom 15 percent of households at baseline, poverty fell 20 percent. Voucher recipients received higher-quality rice, and increased consumption of eggs. The results suggest moving from a manual in-kind to electronic voucher-based program reduced poverty through increased adherence to program design.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Randomized Control Trial; welfare reform

JEL Classification:
      H53 National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Geographic Coverage: Indonesia

Data Type(s): program source code

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