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Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme?: Evidence from a field experiment in India

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  • Upasak Das
  • Amartya Paul
  • Mohit Sharma

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Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly available micro-level data on last mile delays in payment and programme uptake, along with a set of intermediate outcomes.

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  • Upasak Das & Amartya Paul & Mohit Sharma, 2021. "Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme?: Evidence from a field experiment in India," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-21, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Implementation; Information; randomization; Welfare; Public works; Field experiment; Benefit programmes;
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