The impact of providing psycho-social support to indigent families and increasing their access to social services : evaluating Chile Solidario

Abstract

The brief summarizes the impact of providing psycho-social support to indigent families and increasing their access to social services: evaluating Chile Solidario (CHS) for the year 2002. For each individual, the intensive psycho-social support lasts for 24 months and cash transfers last for 24 months. (CHS) is an innovative poverty program which targets indigent families in Chile. It attempts to lift families out of poverty through a coordinated set of stimulus to the demand and supply of social services, and through the provision of psycho-social support to beneficiary families. In this paper we analyze the short and medium term effectiveness of this program using both administrative and survey data. The author use a RD design, exploring the fact that in order to be eligible a family must have a means-test score below a given cutoff, which varies by municipality. The author find that the program leads to increases the take-up of subsidies and of employment programs. The impacts of CHS vary across families with different characteristics, and located in different municipalities: the impact of the program on the take up of subsidies is larger in municipalities with a better network of social services, for families served by social workers with relatively low caseloads, and in male headed families. The impact of the program on employment of spouse is larger in rural areas and for families served by social workers with relatively low caseload.

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