Replication Data for: Going the Last Mile: How Social Pensions Make Marginalized Elders Legible and Build the State’s Informational Capacity

The state’s reach across societal groups is often uneven. Lacking docu-
ments that provide official proof of age and identity, many elderly people in
countries of the Global South have long resided in the blind spot of states,
especially if they are poor, indigenous, live in rural areas, and have labored
outside the formal sector. How can states go the last mile and build infor-
mational capacity by incorporating particularly marginalized groups? What
induces marginalized elders to register their births decades after the fact?
Based on cross-national analyses, case studies of Mexico and Bolivia, and
a series of difference-in-difference designs, we show that bureaucratic social
welfare policies can incentivize identity documentation among hard-to-reach
populations. The rollout of social pensions prompted previously unregistered
elders to finally obtain birth registration and certification, making invisible
elders legible and enhancing the informational capacity of the state.

国家对不同社会群体的覆盖往往并不均衡。全球南方（Global South）国家的众多老年群体因缺乏官方年龄与身份凭证文件，长期身处国家治理的盲区之中，尤其是那些贫困、拥有原住民身份、居住在农村地区且曾在非正规部门就业的老年群体。国家应如何打通服务最后一公里，通过纳入特定边缘群体来提升自身信息治理能力？又是什么因素促使边缘老年群体在出生数十年后补办出生登记？基于跨国分析、墨西哥与玻利维亚的案例研究，以及一系列双重差分法（difference-in-difference）设计，我们发现，科层制社会福利政策能够激励难以触达的群体主动申领身份凭证文件。社会养老金政策的落地实施促使此前未办理出生登记的老年群体最终完成登记并获取出生证明，让原本处于治理盲区的老年群体纳入国家治理视野、实现身份可识别，同时提升了国家的信息治理能力。

搜集汇总

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背景概述

该数据集是用于复制研究“Going the Last Mile: How Social Pensions Make Marginalized Elders Legible and Build the State’s Informational Capacity”的数据和代码集合，主要探讨社会养老金政策如何激励全球南方国家中边缘化老年人进行出生登记，从而增强国家信息能力。数据集包含玻利维亚和墨西哥的民事登记和人口统计系统数据，以及用于复制研究表格和图形的R和Stata代码，基于跨国分析、案例研究和差异中的差异设计方法。数据属于社会科学领域，采用CC0 1.0许可协议公开共享。