TACKLING SOCIAL EXCLUSION: EVIDENCE FROM CHILE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; The World Bank; University of Bergen; Uppsala University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12594
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 172-208
• 关键词: regression discontinuity designs; poverty; manipulation; impacts; cash

摘要

We study a Chilean programme that combines home visits to households in extreme poverty with guaranteed access to social services. Its goal was to connect marginalised families to the social system to improve their living conditions. Programme impacts are identified using regression discontinuity exploring the fact that eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. There is no evidence of short or long-term effects on employment or housing. However, we find short and medium-term impacts on the take-up of subsidies and employment services among families without access to the welfare system prior to the intervention.