This paper studies an innovative welfare program in Chile that 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. The analysis finds strong and lasting impacts of the program on the take-up of subsidies...
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2015/01/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS7180
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1
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2015/01/01
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Disclosed
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Tackling social exclusion : evidence from Chile
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social worker