Bel, Germa;
Buhler, Joel;
Pano, Esther;
(2025)
Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services.
Public Management Review
10.1080/14719037.2025.2533366.
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Abstract
We investigate the effects of interlocal cooperation in social services, focusing on two poverty-related outcomes: guaranteed minimum income and housing rental support. Using a rich database on municipalities in Catalonia, we firstly apply a quasi-experimental strategy and then perform robustness analyses using panel models. Our most robust results indicate that cooperation has a positive and significant effect on rental assistance, but no significant effects on guaranteed minimum income. This suggests that cooperation may be effective in improving community-based outcomes where these are determined by services that involve more complex tasks and procedures.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14719037.2025.2533366 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2025.2533366 |
| 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: | Interlocal cooperation, intermunicipal cooperation, community outcomes, social services, complexity |
| 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 Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217666 |
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