Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile: The short term effects of Chile Solidario;Aliviando la extrema pobreza en Chile: Efectos a corto plazo de Chile Solidario

Estudios de Economia

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-127

  Galasso, Emanuela ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Chile; Extreme poverty; Matching estimators; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054800546     PISSN: 03042758     EISSN: 07185286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-52862011000100005     Document Type: Article

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