Microeconomics in policy making: poverty reduction using randomized evaluation
Workshop/Webinar
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Penerapan ekonomi mikro dalam pengambilan kebijakan: Bagaimana evaluasi acak berkontribusi terhadap penanggulangan kemiskinan?
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Efforts to reduce poverty can take many forms, including in the form of microeconomics policies. In Indonesia, social assistance programs are one among those efforts. However, identifying the people experiencing poverty as the program beneficiary can be challenging. The government of Indonesia worked together with J-PAL affiliated researchers to conduct two randomized evaluations on social assistance programs' targeting methods. Which methods were better at identifying program beneficiaries? How did researchers conduct the evaluation?
Find out more by joining this webinar and grab your chance to learn about internship opportunities at J-PAL SEA.
This webinar is designed for undergraduate and graduate students from universities across Indonesia, 100 participants at maximum.
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Upaya penanggulangan kemiskinan dapat dilakukan dalam berbagai bentuk, termasuk melalui kebijakan mikro ekonomi. Di Indonesia, program bantuan sosial termasuk ke dalam salah satu upaya tersebut. Akan tetapi dalam pelaksanaannya, mengidentifikasi individu atau rumah tangga yang berhak mendapat bantuan sosial sering kali menjadi sebuah tantangan. Pemerintah Indonesia bekerja sama dengan peneliti terafiliasi J-PAL untuk melakukan dua evaluasi acak mengenai metode penentuan penerima manfaat program bantuan sosial di Indonesia. Metode mana yang lebih baik dalam mengidentifikasi penerima bantuan? Bagaimana peneliti melakukan evaluasi tersebut?
Cari tahu lebih lanjut dengan menghadiri webinar ini dan dapatkan kesempatan untuk mengetahui peluang internship di J-PAL SEA.
Webinar ini diperuntukkan bagi mahasiswa/i di seluruh Indonesia dengan kuota terbatas hanya untuk 100 orang.
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Efforts to reduce poverty can take many forms, including in the form of microeconomics policies. In Indonesia, social assistance programs are one among those efforts. However, identifying the people experiencing poverty as the program beneficiary can be challenging. The government of Indonesia worked together with J-PAL affiliated researchers to conduct two randomized evaluations on social assistance programs' targeting methods. Which methods were better at identifying program beneficiaries? How did researchers conduct the evaluation?
Find out more by joining this webinar and grab your chance to learn about internship opportunities at J-PAL SEA.
This webinar is designed for undergraduate and graduate students from universities across Indonesia, 100 participants at maximum.
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Upaya penanggulangan kemiskinan dapat dilakukan dalam berbagai bentuk, termasuk melalui kebijakan mikro ekonomi. Di Indonesia, program bantuan sosial termasuk ke dalam salah satu upaya tersebut. Akan tetapi dalam pelaksanaannya, mengidentifikasi individu atau rumah tangga yang berhak mendapat bantuan sosial sering kali menjadi sebuah tantangan. Pemerintah Indonesia bekerja sama dengan peneliti terafiliasi J-PAL untuk melakukan dua evaluasi acak mengenai metode penentuan penerima manfaat program bantuan sosial di Indonesia. Metode mana yang lebih baik dalam mengidentifikasi penerima bantuan? Bagaimana peneliti melakukan evaluasi tersebut?
Cari tahu lebih lanjut dengan menghadiri webinar ini dan dapatkan kesempatan untuk mengetahui peluang internship di J-PAL SEA.
Webinar ini diperuntukkan bagi mahasiswa/i di seluruh Indonesia dengan kuota terbatas hanya untuk 100 orang.
Orador/a
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Farah Amalia | Senior Policy, Communications and Training Manager | As a Senior PCT Manager, Farah is involved in capacity building for local researchers as well as internal capacity building of J-PAL Southeast Asia staff. Farah also connects J-PAL Southeast Asia with government and non-government organizations interested in evidence-based policymaking. |
| Adiyati Dwitami | Policy Associate | Adiyati Putri Dwitami is a Policy Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia. As part of the policy team of the Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative (IFII), Dwita assists in developing new research partnerships and conducts policy outreach for evidence dissemination. |
| M. Thoriq Akbar | Research Associate | Mochamad Thoriq Akbar is a Research Associate at J-PAL SEA where he works on randomized evaluation on school-based intervention. Previously, he worked at Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives where he managed an impact evaluation project on health worker team-based deployment. |
Resumo
Social assistance programs, such as cash transfers and food assistance, are an important part of poverty alleviation. However, identifying the people experiencing poverty as the program beneficiary can be challenging. The World Bank estimated that 45% of the funds for the unconditional cash transfer program (BLT) were incorrectly provided to middle- or high-income households, and 47% of people experiencing poverty were excluded from the beneficiary list. Thus, the government of Indonesia worked together with J-PAL affiliated researchers to conduct two randomized evaluations on social assistance programs' targeting methods.
Randomized evaluation is a rigorous evaluation method to measure program impacts. By using this evaluation method, study participants are randomly assigned to a treatment group(s) of which they will receive different types of an intervention and a comparison group that does not receive any intervention. When properly designed and implemented, randomized evaluations produce an unbiased estimate that any differences in outcomes between the two groups are a result of the program.
The first evaluation took place from 2008 to 2009 under Indonesia’s unconditional cash transfer program (BLT) and the second evaluation took place from 2010 to 2012 under Indonesia’s Family Hope Program (PKH). In total, these evaluations measured three different methods:
1. A proxy means test, in which a household’s welfare status is predicted using information on their observable assets, such as their house size or ownership of a vehicle; and
2. Community-based targeting, where community members come together to collectively rank households based on their welfare status, from wealthiest to poorest
3. Self-targeting, in which individuals are invited to apply for an assistance program.
Results of the evaluation:
1. There is a trade-off between the proxy means test and community targeting. While the proxy means test was slightly better at correctly identifying low-income households, the community targeting method led to higher community satisfaction, because the household rankings better matched the community’s perception of which families should benefit from the program.
2. The evaluation found no evidence of elite capture where resources being diverted to those with more high-level connections within the community.
3. Self-targeting is more effective at selecting eligible beneficiaries than the proxy means test. Households living in extreme poverty – or the bottom 5% of the population – are more likely to apply for the program, and hence receive the benefits.
In 2020, the result of this evaluation was adopted by the Ministry of Village in the Covid-19 relief program, which used the community targeting method to provide cash transfers to over eight million recipients previously unenrolled in social assistance programs. Moreover, in the 2021 Ministry of Social Affairs Regulation No. 3, the Government also added both the community targeting and self-targeting mechanism as methods to update the social welfare database.