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Can SMS Technology Improve Low Take-up of Social Benefits?

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dc.creatorBlanco, Mariana
dc.creatorVargas Duque, Juan Fernando
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-06T12:06:53Z
dc.date.available2015-10-06T12:06:53Z
dc.date.created2013-12
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractLow take up of stigma-free social benefits is often blamed on information asymmetries or administrative barriers. There is limited evidence on which of these potential channels is more salient in which contexts. We designed and implemented a randomized controlled trial to assess the extent to which informational barriers are responsible for the prevalent low take-up of government benefits among Colombian conflict-driven internal refugees. We provide timely information on benefits eligibility via SMS to a random half of the displaced household that migrated to Bogot´a over a 6-month period. We show that improving information increases benefits’ take up. However, the effect is small and only true for certain type of benefits. Hence, consistent with previous experimental literature, the availability of timely information explains only part of the low-take up rates and the role of administrative barriers and bureaucratic processes should be tackled to increase the well-being of internal refugees in Colombia.eng
dc.format.extent22 páginasspa
dc.format.mediumRecurso electrónicospa
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dc.format.tipoDocumentospa
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10965
dc.identifier.editorialUniversidad del Rosario, Facultad de Economíaspa
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10965
dc.language.isospa
dc.publisherUniversidad del Rosariospa
dc.publisher.departmentFacultad de Economíaspa
dc.relation.citationIssueNo. 150
dc.relation.citationTitleSerie Documentos de trabajo. Economía
dc.relation.ispartofSerie Documentos de trabajo ; No. 150spa
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dc.relation.urihttps://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000092/011036.html
dc.rights.accesRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.accesoAbierto (Texto completo)spa
dc.rights.ccAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombiaspa
dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspa
dc.subject.ddcMacroeconomía & temas relacionados
dc.subject.keywordInformation asymmetrieseng
dc.subject.keywordTake-up rateeng
dc.subject.keywordSMSeng
dc.subject.keywordRCTeng
dc.subject.lembAsistencia económicaspa
dc.subject.lembAsistencia social::Colombiaspa
dc.subject.lembSistemas móviles de comunicaciónspa
dc.subject.lembMensajes de textospa
dc.subject.lembTasa de retornospa
dc.titleCan SMS Technology Improve Low Take-up of Social Benefits?spa
dc.typeworkingPapereng
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
dc.type.spaDocumento de trabajospa
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