Emergency Cash Transfers in Chile during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Latin American Perspectives: A Journal on Capitalism and Socialism
Published online on April 29, 2026
Abstract
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This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and Chile’s Emergency Family Income (IFE) reshaped households in the Social Household Registry (RSH). Using administrative data (2016–2021), we analyze the emergence of "new" and "disaggregated" households—...
This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and Chile’s Emergency Family Income (IFE) reshaped households in the Social Household Registry (RSH). Using administrative data (2016–2021), we analyze the emergence of "new" and "disaggregated" households—...