Latest Publications

Promoting Community-Based Village Supervision

April, 2018 | Rendy Adriyan Diningrat
This policy brief recommends a model of village supervision by the community that adopts four principles of social accountability.

Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty: Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

April, 2018 | Sudarno Sumarto, Julia E. Tobias, Samuel Bazzi, Adama Bah
Linking administrative data with an independent household survey, we find that the UDB system is more progressive than previous, program-specific targeting approaches.

The Impact of Media on Behaviour: Evidence from Television Coverage Expansion and Declining Fertility in Indonesia

February, 2018 | Rika Kumala Dewi, Daniel Suryadarma, Asep Suryahadi
In this article, we examine the effect of an expansion of private television broadcast on fertility in Indonesia.

Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

February, 2018 | Sudarno Sumarto, Benjamin A Olken, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle
In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted beneficiaries increase the subsidy they receive from a subsidized rice program.

Exploratory Study on the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program with a Child Labor Component Support in Sukabumi and Cianjur—West Java

February, 2018 | Muhammad Syukri, M. Sulton Mawardi, Vita Febriany, Rachma Indah Nurbani, Athia Yumna, Kartawijaya
This study is to identify possible impacts of the Conditional Cash Transfer program (PKH) with Child Labor support component.