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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev. 2012 Jun;102(4):1206–1240. doi: 10.1257/aer.102.4.1206

Appendix Table 5.

Simulated poverty impacts after subtracting targeting costs .

Transfer Size (Rp. 000s) Poverty line = Poor Poverty line = Very poor
PMT Community Hybrid PMT Community Hybrid
No transfer headcount 33.86 33.86 33.86 15.64 15.64 15.64
pov. gap 9.45 9.45 9.45 3.55 3.55 3.55
sq. pov gap 3.73 3.73 3.73 1.21 1.21 1.21
50 headcount 33.07 32.91 33.41 15.11 14.69 14.74
pov. gap 8.96 8.92 8.96 3.22 3.17 3.22
sq. pov gap 3.46 3.42 3.44 1.06 1.03 1.05
100 headcount 31.73 32.11 32.19 14.17 13.78 13.89
pov. gap 8.43 8.43 8.42 2.88 2.84 2.88
sq. pov gap 3.18 3.14 3.15 0.93 0.89 0.90
200 headcount 29.66 30.09 30.32 12.46 12.13 12.44
pov. gap 7.53 7.56 7.54 2.40 2.34 2.35
sq. pov gap 2.74 2.70 2.70 0.75 0.68 0.69
500 headcount 24.24 25.24 25.53 8.86 9.19 9.25
pov. gap 5.78 5.89 5.87 1.70 1.59 1.62
sq. pov gap 2.03 1.99 1.98 0.54 0.45 0.46

Note that these results are very similar to the main targeting results because the differences in targeting costs are small relative to the transfers considered here. Note that the transfer sizes above are monthly transfers in Rp. 000s. Assuming that targeting is done once per year, so the one-time cost of targeting is amortized over twelve monthly transfers, the costs of targeting per beneficiary are Rp. 7,000 for PMT, Rp. 3,100 for community, and Rp. 8,000 for hybrid.