Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/170952 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10968
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data with official proxy means testing models and 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. Introducing a new method of evaluation under the condition of multiple programs, we show that households receiving all three programs are at least 30 percentage points better off than those receiving none. Importantly, the bias from failing to account for program complementarities is greater in magnitude than the benefits of receiving a single program.
Subjects: 
poverty
targeting
Indonesia
complementarities
JEL: 
D04
I32
I38
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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