Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

doi:10.1257/app.6.4.1

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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

dc.contributor.author	Olken, Benjamin A.
dc.contributor.author	Onishi, Junko
dc.contributor.author	Wong, Susan
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-13T20:41:44Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-13T20:41:44Z
dc.date.issued	2014-10
dc.description.abstract	We report an experiment in 3,000 villages that tested whether incentives improve aid efficacy. Villages received block grants for maternal and child health and education that incorporated relative performance incentives. Subdistricts were randomized into incentives, an otherwise identical program without incentives, or control. Incentives initially improved preventative health indicators, particularly in underdeveloped areas, and spending efficiency increased. While school enrollments improved overall, incentives had no differential impact on education, and incentive health effects diminished over time. Reductions in neonatal mortality in non-incentivized areas did not persist with incentives. We find no systematic scoring manipulation nor funding reallocation toward richer areas.	en
dc.identifier.citation	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/20533
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/20533
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	American Economic Association
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	American Economic Association
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	foreign aid
dc.subject	health policy
dc.subject	education policy
dc.subject	maternal health
dc.subject	gender
dc.subject	discrimination
dc.title	Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Gender
okr.date.disclosure	2014-09-19
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:31:47.985486Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Education
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi	10.1257/app.6.4.1
okr.journal.nbpages	1-34
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.country	Indonesia
okr.relation.associatedurl	https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/app.6.4.1
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Foreign Aid
okr.topic	Education
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.unit	GSPDR - Social Protect & Labor - GP; GSURR - Urban, Rural & Soc Dev - GP
okr.volume	6(4)