Community-based outcomes of interlocal cooperation in social services
研究了西班牙加泰罗尼亚地区地方政府在社会服务中的合作对两种贫困相关成果（最低生活保障和住房租金补贴）的影响，发现合作显著提升了租金补贴效果，但对最低生活保障无显著影响。
We investigate the effects of interlocal cooperation in social services, focusing on two poverty-related outcomes: guaranteed minimum income and housing rental support. Using a rich database on municipalities in Catalonia, we firstly apply a quasi-experimental strategy and then perform robustness analyses using panel models. Our most robust results indicate that cooperation has a positive and significant effect on rental assistance, but no significant effects on guaranteed minimum income. This suggests that cooperation may be effective in improving community-based outcomes where these are determined by services that involve more complex tasks and procedures.