Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
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In the first follow up survey, we identified the set of hamlets in each village that had at least one targeted beneficiary and had not been randomly selected to be surveyed in the previous experiment; we then randomly selected one hamlet from this set. Within each hamlet, we selected 8 households to be surveyed for a total of 4,571 households. Of these 8 households, we oversampled beneficiaries as they were the focus of the study, and thus we randomly selected 5 households from the beneficiary listing and 3 from a hamlet census. The 5 randomly chosen beneficiaries were stratified by whether they were classified as very poor (the bottom 10 decile) or other eligible households. A fraction of those who were randomly chosen from the census were eligible and thus are classified as such in the analysis. We also surveyed the village head.
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