Safe Isolation

Selected by the School of Economics of Universidad de los Andes for the Documentos CEDE – Estudiantes PEG series (No. 42, 2022). Read it on SSRN

Question. Did Ingreso Solidario, an unconditional cash transfer launched during Covid-19, change how strictly Colombian municipalities complied with isolation measures, and did the effect differ between poorer and richer municipalities?

Approach. I combined local mobility data with administrative program data from Prosperidad Social and estimated a difference-in-differences model within an event-study design around the program’s first disbursement.

Result. Compliance with isolation measures responded heterogeneously across the groups of municipalities studied.

Advisors: David Bardey and Manuel Fernández.