eprintid: 22223
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/02/22/23
datestamp: 2016-11-22 14:22:02
lastmod: 2016-11-28 10:31:31
status_changed: 2016-11-22 14:22:02
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Schleicher, Michael
creators_name: Souares, Aurélia
creators_name: Pacere, Athanase Narangoro
creators_name: Sauerborn, Rainer
creators_name: Klonner, Stefan
title: Decentralized versus Statistical Targeting of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
keywords: Targeting, Community-based Targeting, Welfare Programs, Poverty, Community Wealth Rankings, Proxy-means Testing
abstract: Targeting of national anti-poverty programs in low-income countries commonly relies on statistical procedures involving household-level survey data, while small-scale poverty-alleviation programs often employ so-called community-based targeting, where village communities themselves identify program beneficiaries. Combining data from community-based targeting exercises in north-western Burkina Faso with household-level survey data, we compare the targeting accuracy of community-based targeting with several statistical procedures when the program's purpose is to target consumption-poor households. We find that the community-based assessment targets a similar share of consumption-poor households as the best-performing statistical procedures which are not calibrated with household-level consumption data. Community-based targeting performs relatively better in urban than in rural areas and is not at a disadvantage in larger or more heterogeneous communities. In a cost-benefit analysis we find that in our sub-Saharan African context community-based targeting is far more cost-effective than any statistical procedure for common amounts of welfare program benefits.
date: 2016-11
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00022223
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0623
ppn_swb: 881666734
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-222238
language: eng
bibsort: SCHLEICHERDECENTRALI201611
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0623
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 59
citation:   Schleicher, Michael ; Souares, Aurélia ; Pacere, Athanase Narangoro ; Sauerborn, Rainer ; Klonner, Stefan  (2016) Decentralized versus Statistical Targeting of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22223/1/schleicher%20souares%20pacere%20Sauerborn%20klonner%202016_dp623.pdf