Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
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- Abhijit Banerjee & Rema Hanna & Benjamin A. Olken & Elan Satriawan & Sudarno Sumarto, 2021. "Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia," NBER Working Papers 28641, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
welfare; poverty; wellbeing development; growth development;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-11-13 (Experimental Economics)
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