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Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services

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We investigate the effects of interlocal cooperation in social services. We focus on three poverty-related outcomes: Guaranteed minimum income, housing rental support, and diagnosis of children at risk. We had a rich database on municipalities in Catalonia. First, we apply a quasi-experimental strategy and then perform robustness analyses using panel models. Our most robust results indicate that cooperation has a positive and significant effect on rental assistance, but has no significant effects on guaranteed minimum income. This suggests that cooperation may be effective in improving community-based outcomes where these are determined by services which involve more complex tasks and procedures.

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Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa

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cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Bel i Queralt, Germà et al., 2024

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Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA))

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Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services