Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile

Rita Ginja, Pedro Carneiro and Emanuela Galasso

No 2014:3, Working Paper Series from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: 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 identi ed using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. We nd 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.

Keywords: Social Exclusion; Social Protection; Chile; Extreme Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 I38 J08 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 87 pages
Date: 2014-05-09
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Working Paper: Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile (2014)
Working Paper: Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile (2014)
Working Paper: Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile (2014)
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