Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-Bühler, JoëlPano, Esther2024-12-112024-12-112024https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217022We 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.24 p.application/pdfengcc-by-nc-nd, (c) Bel i Queralt, Germà et al., 2024http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Cooperació intergovernamentalServeis socialsAssistència socialIntergovernmental cooperationHuman servicesPublic welfareinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess