Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190046 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/201
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children's health and education. We assess the programme's longer-term impact on educational attainment and labour income at ages 25-28. Overall, Chile Solidario has a positive and long-lasting effect, albeit with significant impact heterogeneity. The effects on educational attainment are similar for women and men, and for indigenous and non-indigenous people, but the effects on labour income are driven by men and non-indigenous people. The impact on labour income is not significantly different from zero for women with children, but is positive and significant for women without children. The effects on both education and labour income are concentrated in urban areas. Our results indicate that the impact of Chile Solidario depends on societal and structural factors underpinning labour markets in Chile.
Subjects: 
Conditional cash transfers
human capital
labour income
children
Latin America
Chile Solidario
JEL: 
I21
I38
J24
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-427-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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