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-to-hide assets is used to predict consumption, and community-based targeting, where villagers rank everyone on a scale from richest … to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … community-based targeting performs worse in identifying the poor than proxy-means tests, particularly near the threshold. This …
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-to-hide assets is used to predict consumption, and community-based targeting, where villagers rank everyone on a scale from richest … to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … community-based targeting performs worse in identifying the poor than proxy-means tests, particularly near the threshold. This …
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In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital's decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television (and radio), I exploit plausibly exogenous...
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