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When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (2019), 55 pp.
"Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by many, and whether on net their statements actually lead people to change their beliefs. To do so, we conducted
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Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
Journal of Political Economy, volume 126, issue 2 (2018), pp. 451-491
"Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted
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