TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Tohari, Achmad
AU  - Parsons, Christopher
AU  - Rammohan, Anu
        TI  - Targeting Poverty under Complementarities: Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System
        PY  - 2017/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10968
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10968
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - complementarities
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - targeting
KW  - poverty
        ER  -