E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Clement Imbert, Santhosh Mathew, Rohini Pande
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare program. The reforms introduced electronic fund-flow, cut out administrative tiers, and switched the basis of transfer amounts from forecasts to documented expenditures. Treatment reduced leakages along three measures: expenditures and hours claimed dropped while an independent household survey found no impact on actual employment and wages received; a matching exercise reveals a reduction in fake households on payrolls; and local program officials' self-reported median personal assets fell
Year of publication: |
November 2016
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Authors: | Banerjee, Abhijit |
Other Persons: | Imbert, Clement (contributor) ; Duflo, Esther (contributor) ; Pande, Rohini (contributor) ; Mathew, Santhosh (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
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Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Indien | India | Rechenschaftspflicht | Accountability | E-Government | E-government | Anti-Korruption | Anti-corruption | Öffentliche Sozialleistungen | Social security benefits | Aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik | Workfare | Schätzung | Estimation |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w22803 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w22803 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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