Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy …'s role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household …

coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …'s Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities …

attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting …, optimizing targeting measures will be misleading when the actual goal is to maximize the effect on poverty. …A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations …

In 2013, the Government of Indonesia conducted one of the largest information interventions in histo-ry, in an attempt … to further alleviate poverty and as a complement to the Social Protection Card (KPS). Drawing upon administrative data … and nationally representative surveys, we evaluate the impact of the information campaign on the receipt of two of …

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy …'s role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household …

coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …'s Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

targeting, the difficulty in identifying the poor promotes a universal allocation of benefits. To address this question, this … study examines the targeting performance of, and access to, a social welfare scheme for an increasingly vulnerable group … targeting approach to a random allocation, I show that the benefits of targeting are limited. The reforms aimed at increasing …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size … (number of beneficiaries, size of transfer per beneficiary, and size of total budget) and three dimensions of targeting … (coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …

information before, during, and after the 2020 economic crisis. Updating the PMT data does not improve social welfare relative to … targeting metrics together with the curvature of governments' social welfare function and budgetary and political constraints. …