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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 programme 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.
Authors
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).
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.
Emanuela Galasso
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.cem.2014.2414
- Publisher
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
Suggested citation
P, Carneiro and E, Galasso and R, Ginja. (2014). Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/tackling-social-exclusion-evidence-chile (accessed: 20 April 2024).
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