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Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India / Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, Sandip Sukhtankar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muralidharan, Karthik.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26744.
- NBER working paper series no. w26744
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- We evaluate reforms that integrated more stringent, biometric ID requirements into India's largest social protection program, using large-scale randomized and natural experiments. Corruption fell but with substantial costs to legitimate beneficiaries, 1.5-2 million of whom lost access to benefits at some point during the reforms. Adverse effects appear to have been driven primarily by decisions about the way the transition was managed, illustrating both the risks of rapid reforms, and how the impacts of promising new technologies can be highly sensitive to the protocols governing their use.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2020.
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