Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan C. Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto

NBER Working Paper No. 21837
Issued in December 2015

---- Acknowledgments ----

This project was a collaboration involving many people. We thank Nurzanty Khadijah, Chaerudin Kodir, Lina Marliani, Purwanto Nugroho, Hector Salazar Salame, and Freida Siregar for their outstanding work implementing the project and Gabriel Kreindler, Wayne Sandholtz, and Alyssa Lawther for their excellent research assistance. We thank Mitra Samya, the Indonesian National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (particularly Bambang Widianto, Suahasil Nazara, Sri Kusumastuti Rahayu, and Fiona Howell), and SurveyMetre (particularly Bondan Sikoki and Cecep Sumantri) for their cooperation implementing the project and data collection. This project was financially supported by the Australian Government through the Poverty Reduction Support Facility. Jordan Kyle acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. 2009082932.

This RCT was registered in the American Economic Association Registry for randomized control trials under Trial number AEARCTR-0000096. All views expressed in the paper are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views any of the many institutions or individuals acknowledged here. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

---- Disclosure of Financial Relationships for Rema Hanna ----

Rema Hanna is a scientific director at JPAL-South East Asia. J-PAL has no stake in the outcomes of any given evaluation results; however, J-PAL does have a position on what is considered a rigorous evaluation methodology.

This project was financially supported by the Australian Government through the Poverty Reduction Support Facility.

---- Disclosure of Financial Relationships for Jordan C. Kyle ----

Kyle’s time in Indonesia was supported by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (also known as Australian Aid) as part of their support our work on randomized experiments in Indonesia, including this project. Neither the Indonesian Government, TNP2K, nor the Australian Government had the right of prior review over this paper. However, they were provided with a copy of the paper prior to submission as a courtesy.

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