Browsing HKS Center for International Development by Author "Alatas, Vivi"

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    • Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia 

      Hanna, Rema; Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Olken, Benjamin A.; Purnamasari, Ririn; Wai-Poi, Matthew (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-01)
      This paper investigates the impact of elite capture on the allocation of targeted government welfare programs in Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental ...

    • Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 

      Hanna, Rema; Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Olken, Benjamin A. (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-08)
      We use a unique data-set from Indonesia on what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure ...

    • Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia 

      Hanna, Rema; Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Olken, Benjamin A.; Purnamasari, Ririn; Wai-Poi, Matthew (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-11)
      This paper explores whether ordeal mechanisms can improve the targeting of aid programs to the poor ("self-targeting"). We first show that theoretically the impact of increasing ordeals is ambiguous: for example, time spent ...