Niehaus, Paul; Atanassova, Antonia; Bertrand, Marianne; … - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (2013) 1, pp. 206-38
Targeting assistance to the poor is a central problem in development. We study the problem of designing a proxy means test when the implementing agent is corruptible. Conditioning on more poverty indicators may worsen targeting in this environment because of a novel tradeoff between statistical...