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 …

Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities …. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … particularly affected. A comprehensive approach is required to ensure an effective transition out of poverty and social exclusion …

visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a … that this major national program is likely to fail in making a significant contribution to reducing extreme poverty. We …