Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile

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We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. We find strong and lasting impacts of the program on the take up of subsidies and employment services. These impacts are important only for families who had little access to the welfare system prior to the intervention.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2014:3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Labor Economics Policies
• Subject: Social Exclusion ; Social Protection ; Chile ; Extreme Poverty ; Armutsbekämpfung ; Sozialer Dienst ; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Armut ; Soziale Isolation ; Chile

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Carneiro, Pedro ; Galasso, Emanuela ; Ginja, Rita
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Uppsala University, Department of Economics
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/123791
• URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-224848
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:47 AM CET