Carneiro, P;
Galasso, E;
Ginja, R;
(2019)
Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile.
The Economic Journal
, 129
(617)
pp. 172-208.
10.1111/ecoj.12594.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12594 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12594 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Social Exclusion, Social Protection, Chile, Extreme Poverty |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041554 |
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