TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carneiro, Pedro
AU  - Galasso, Emanuela
AU  - Ginja, Rita
        TI  - Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile
        PY  - 2014/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8209
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8209
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - social exclusion
KW  - social protection
KW  - Chile
KW  - extreme poverty
        ER  -