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

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 wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olken, Benjamin A., Onishi, Junko, Wong, Susan
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20533