Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - In: Journal of public economics plus 1 (2020), pp. 1-9
Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets. Does this distort subsequent reporting of, or actual purchases of, those assets? We ran a nationwide experiment in Indonesia where, in randomly selected provinces, the...