Neighborhood Effects in Integrated Social Policies

• Tác giả: Matteo Bobba
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 361.61 Social policy
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2017
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 301667
• Chủ đề: 1. CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS; 2. KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVER; 3. POLICY EVALUATION; 4. SOCIAL POLICY; 5. SPATIAL EXTERNALITIES

Tóm tắt

When potential beneficiaries share their knowledge and attitudes about a policy intervention, their decision to participate and the effectiveness of both the policy and its evaluation may be influenced. This matters most notably in integrated social policies with several components. In this article, spillover effects on take-up behaviors are investigated in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in rural Mexico. These effects are identified using exogenous variations in the local frequency of beneficiaries generated by the program's randomized evaluation. A higher treatment density in the areas surrounding the evaluation villages is found to increase the take-up of scholarships and enrollment at the lower-secondary level. These cross-village spillovers operate exclusively within households receiving another component of the program, and do not carry over larger distances. While several tests reject heterogeneities in impact due to spatial variations in program implementation, evidence is found suggesting that spillovers stem partly from the sharing of information about the program among eligible households.