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Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over … inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and regional levels. The impact of cash subsidies to poor households on …
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This paper studies an innovative welfare program in Chile that combines a period of frequent home visits to households …
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Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through access to free savings accounts decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock...
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Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through access to free savings accounts decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock...
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We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in …
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Taking advantage of a reform that made Chile’s most popular conditional cash transfer program substantially more …
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