Gaduh, Arya; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A. - 2023
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-between more generous social assistance and losses due to corruption and fraud …