Strategies to increase the take-up of social benefits. Evidence from a field experiment in a deeply vulnerable population

Cid, Alejandro; Cabrera, José María; Bernatzky, Marianne; Ramírez-Michelena, María; Blanco, Magdalena

dc.rights.license	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.contributor.author	Cid, Alejandro
dc.contributor.author	Cabrera, José María
dc.contributor.author	Bernatzky, Marianne
dc.contributor.author	Ramírez-Michelena, María
dc.contributor.author	Blanco, Magdalena
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-08T14:50:40Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-08T14:50:40Z
dc.date.issued	2019	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1373
dc.description.abstract	This is the first paper to identify, using a field experiment, the effects of intense one-on-one assistance by a professional social worker on the take-up of social benefits within a population of deeply disadvantaged informal workers. A municipal program exists that entails providing these disadvantaged informal workers with a formal permit to work on the streets and make contributions to the retirement pension system. We randomly assign one-on-one assistance to these informal workers, and within this treatment group, we randomly assign money to cover the cost of the documents required by the municipality. We find that a worker who receives one-on-one assistance is three times more likely to receive the municipal permit than a worker in the control group. We also find that a worker who receives both one-on-one assistance and cost coverage is four times more likely to obtain the municipal permit. Providing information alone does not have an impact. The program has no spillover effect on the take-up of other national support programs that are not targeted by the one-on-one assistance intervention. These findings identify possible strategies to remove barriers to increase the take-up of social benefits within deeply vulnerable populations.	es
dc.format.extent	48 p.	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	es
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Documentos de trabajo del Departamento de Economía	es
dc.rights	Abierto	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Behavioral barriers	es
dc.subject	Welfare take-up	es
dc.subject	Social benefits	es
dc.subject	Personal assistance	es
dc.subject	Information	es
dc.subject	Field experiment	es
dc.subject	Labor regulation	es
dc.title	Strategies to increase the take-up of social benefits. Evidence from a field experiment in a deeply vulnerable population	es
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cid, Alejandro. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Cabrera, José María. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Bernatzky, Marianne. Universidad de Montevideo	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Ramírez-Michelena, María. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.contributor.filiacion	Blanco, Magdalena. Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay	es
dc.type.version	Publicada	es

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