d WORKING PAPER Assessing the Political Impacts of a Conditional Cash Transfer: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment Julia E. Tobias Global Innovation Fund, London, U.K. Sudarno Sumarto The SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia Habib Moody The Urban Institute, Washington D.C., USA WORKING PAPER Assessing the Political Impacts of a Conditional Cash Transfer: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in Indonesia Julia E. Tobias Global Innovation Fund, London, U.K. Sudarno Sumarto The SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia Habib Moody The Urban Institute, Washington D.C., USA Editor: Jamie Evans (Australian Volunteers International) The SMERU Research Institute Jakarta December 2014 The findings, views, and interpretations published in this report are those of the authors and should not be attributed to any of the agencies providing financial support to The SMERU Research Institute. For further information on SMERU’s publications, phone 62-21-31936336; fax 62-21-31930850; e-mail
[email protected]; or visit www.smeru.or.id. Assessing the political impacts of a conditional cash transfer evidence from a randomized policy experiment/ Julia E. Tobias et al. -- Jakarta: SMERU Research Institute, 2014 vi, 34 p. ; 30 cm. -- (SMERU Working Paper, 2014) ISBN 978-602-7901-18-6 1. conditional cash transfer I. SMERU II. Julia E. Tobias 362.57 / DDC 22 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank The SMERU Research Institute and the Frank W. Patterson fund of the Yale University Department of Political Science for financial support. We are extremely grateful to Benjamin Olken, Junko Onishi, and Susan Wong for providing access to the survey data used in the paper, and to Susan Hyde for providing data on Indonesia’s 2004 presidential election.