Neighborhood effects in integrated social policies

Matteo Bobba and Jeremie D. Gignoux

No 8022, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: When potential beneficiaries share their knowledge and attitudes about a policy intervention, their decision to participate and the effectiveness of both the policy and its evaluation may be influenced. This matters most notably in integrated social policies with several components. In this article, spillover effects on take-up behaviors are investigated in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. These effects are identified using exogenous variations in the local frequency of beneficiaries generated by the program's randomized evaluation. A higher treatment density in the areas surrounding the evaluation villages is found to increase the take-up of scholarships and enrollment at the lower-secondary level. These cross-village spillovers operate exclusively within households receiving another component of the program, and do not carry over larger distances. While several tests reject heterogeneities in impact due to spatial variations in program implementation, evidence is found suggesting that spillovers stem partly from the sharing of information about the program among eligible households.

Keywords: Services&Transfers to Poor; Disability; Educational Sciences; Access of Poor to Social Services; Economic Assistance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04-03
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Journal Article: Neighborhood Effects in Integrated Social Policies (2019)
Working Paper: Neighborhood Effects in Integrated Social Policies (2016)
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