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Food Vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment In Indonesia

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Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences between these policies, the Government of Indonesia randomly phased in the transition from in-kind delivery of subsidized rice to approximately equivalent vouchers usable to buy rice and eggs across 105 districts comprising over 3.4 million beneficiary households. We find the transition led to substantial changes in the allocation of aid in practice. The vouchers provided concentrated assistance to targeted households, who received 45 percent more assistance in voucher areas than in in-kind districts. As a result, for households in the bottom 15 percent at baseline, poverty fell by 20 percent. Vouchers also allowed households to purchase higher-quality rice, and led to increased consumption of egg-based proteins. We find vouchers have little effect on aggregate rice prices, although we observe modest price increases in remote villages. Overall leakage from the program was not affected, but the administrative costs of benefits delivery substantially fell. In short, the results suggest that the change from in-kind food aid to vouchers led to substantial impacts on poverty through the way it changed how programs were implemented on the ground.

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Ketersediaan

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

Working Paper

No. Panggil

363.8 BAN f

Penerbit

Jakarta : TPN2K., (2021)

Deskripsi Fisik

PDF, 50 Halaman

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

977 2746857002

Klasifikasi

363.8

Tipe Isi

Digital

Tipe Media

Digital Media

Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Working Paper 60-e - 2021

Subjek

Persediaan bahan makanan

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Banerjee Abhijit

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