全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19322
来源ID	Working Paper 19322
	Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums
	Sebastian Galiani; Paul Gertler; Ryan Cooper; Sebastian Martinez; Adam Ross; Raimundo Undurraga
发表日期	2013-08-16
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has on the living conditions of the extremely poor. In particular, we study the impact of providing better houses in situ to slum dwellers in El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides basic pre-fabricated houses to members of extremely poor population groups in Latin America. The main objective of the program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing conditions and general well-being: treated households are happier with their quality of life. In two countries, we also document improvements in children's health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however, in the other two experimental samples. There are no other noticeable robust effects on the possession of durable goods or in terms of labor outcomes. Our results are robust in terms of both internal and external validity because they are derived from similar experiments in three different Latin American countries.
主题	Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19322
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576997
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sebastian Galiani,Paul Gertler,Ryan Cooper,et al. Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums. 2013.