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ABSTRACT
On an international scale, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have rapidly expanded. Since their boom in the 1990s newer modalities have emerged, incorporating some innovative components. The following study sought to examine one particular CCT program heralded as innovative due to its psychosocial and socio employment accompaniment components: Chile's Ethical Family Wage program. Utilizing administrative data from the Ministry of Social Development this exploratory study sought to examine family trajectories in the program with a particular focus on those families who were terminated from the program due to not meeting conditionalities. Findings from the study indicate that the program deviates sharply from its theoretical implementation. Furthermore, the probabilities of program termination increased in those families headed by younger adults, female and single-headed households, households with higher levels of education as well as larger families. However, a greater number of children decreased the probabilities of program termination as was homeownership. Implications of the findings for policy and practice are discussed.
Notes
1. In 2016 and during Bachelet's presidency (2014-2018), the Ethical Family Wage program underwent minor changes and was renamed the Families Program—Securities and Opportunities (Programa Familias – Seguridades y Oportunidades). Since this paper focuses on families from the 2014 program cohort, the description of the program will focus solely on the Ethical Family Wage.
2. In 2016, the social protection survey (FPS) was replaced with a new focalizing system, the Home Social Registry (Registro Social de Hogares).
3. This dataset is available for public use upon a formal request to the Ministry of Social Development (MIDESO).
4. Database was provided by MIDESO in May of 2017.