Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Karlan, Dean; Udry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
prioritize aid to the poorest regions and mobile subscribers. We evaluate this approach by studying Novissi, Togo's flagship … by the Government of Togo at the time, the machine learning approach reduces errors of exclusion by 4-21%. Relative to … methods that require a comprehensive social registry (a hypothetical exercise; no such registry exists in Togo), the machine …