Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98942 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8209
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a discontinuous function of an index of family income and assets. We find strong and lasting impacts of the program on the take up of subsidies and employment services. These impacts are important only for families who had little access to the welfare system prior to the intervention.
Subjects: 
social exclusion
social protection
Chile
extreme poverty
JEL: 
C26
I38
J08
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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