Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

We explore the impact of allowing for outsourcing service delivery to the private sector within Indonesia's largest targeted transfer program. In a field experiment across 572 municipalities, we find that allowing for outsourcing the last mile of food delivery reduced operating costs without sa...

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Abhijit (Author), Hanna, Rema (Author), Kyle, Jordan (Author), Olken, Benjamin (Author), Sumarto, Sudarno (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics and Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2020-03-24T15:45:35Z.
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