Data and Code for: The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Rema Hanna, Harvard University; Benjamin A. Olken, MIT; Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas
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Project Citation:
Hanna, Rema, Olken, Benjamin A. , and Gaduh, Arya. Data and Code for: The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries . Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192290V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Concerns about fraud in welfare programs are common arguments
worldwide against such programs. We conducted a survey experiment with over
28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in
Indonesia to elicit the ‘marginal disutility from corruption,’ i.e., the trade-off
between more generous social assistance and losses due to corruption and fraud.
Merely mentioning corruption reduced perceived program success, equivalent to
distributing more than 26 percent less aid. However, respondents were not
sensitive to the amount of corruption—respondents were willing to trade off $2
of additional losses for an additional $1 distributed to beneficiaries. Program
administrators and beneficiaries had similar assessments.
Funding Sources:
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Innovation in Government Initiative (IGI) (IGI-1461);
Australian Government and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Southeast Asia (J-PAL SEA) Indonesia Research Fund (IRF)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Randomized Control Trial;
corruption
JEL Classification:
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A13 Relation of Economics to Social Values
C83 Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
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
A13 Relation of Economics to Social Values
C83 Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
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:
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Indonesia
Collection Date(s):
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10/8/2020 – 12/12/2020
Data Type(s):
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program source code;
survey data
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