We study an intensive social programme in Chile that combines home visits to households
in extreme poverty with guaranteed access to social services. The goal of the programme
was to connect marginalized families to the social system, which, in turn, should lead to improvements in their living conditions. Programme impacts are identified using a regression
discontinuity design, that explores the fact that programme eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. There is no evidence of short- or long-term
effects of the programme on employment or housing outcomes. However, we find short- and
medium-term impacts of the programme on the take-up of subsidies and employment services,
which are concentrated among families who had little access to the welfare system prior to the
intervention.
Authors
![Pedro Carneiro](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Pedro_Carneiro.jpg?itok=jj8qq067)
Research Fellow University College London
Pedro is a Professor of Economics at University College London and an economist in the IFS' Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap).
![Rita Ginja](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Rita%20Ginja.jpg?itok=_4uPiyhe)
Research Associate University of Bergen
Rita is an IFS Research Associate, an Associate Professor at the University of Bergen and a Research Associate at the Uppsala University.
![Person graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/IFS-person-graphic.png?itok=hWCtTSrz)
Emanuela Galasso
Journal article details
- DOI
- 10.1111/ecoj.12594
- Publisher
- Oxford Academic
- Issue
- January 2019
Suggested citation
P, Carneiro and E, Galasso and R, Ginja. (2019). 'Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile' (2019)
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