Raising the take-up of social assistance benefits through a simple mailing: evidence from a French field experiment

Sylvain Chareyron, David Gray and Yannick L'Horty ()

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Abstract: This paper is related to the phenomenon puzzling unduly low take-up rate for social assistance benefits in France. In order to investigate this phenomenon, we conduct an experimental evaluation in the form of a randomized control trial involving the influences of informational availability and complexity. We examine the impact of a change in the information set which is sent to these households just after they claim the benefit, seeking a behavioral response to this particular ‘nudge'. Our findings suggest that a costless action on the part of program administrators is able to substantially increase take-up for certain types of beneficiaries. In order to be effective, these actions should target households according to their individual attributes.

Keywords: non-take-up of social insurance benefits; RCT; informational nudge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04-20
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Journal Article: Raising Take-Up of Social Assistance Benefits through a Simple Mailing: Evidence from a French Field Experiment (2018)
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