Childhood Housing and Adult Outcomes: A -Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pollakowski, Henry O.; Weinberg, Daniel H.; Andersson, Fredrik; Haltiwanger, John C.; Palloni, Giordano; Kutzbach, Mark J.
• 署名单位: Harvard University; Bank of America Corporation; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20180144
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 235-272
• 关键词: family income; neighborhoods; impacts; achievement; assistance; exposure; earnings; HEALTH; opportunity; brothers

摘要

We create a national-level longitudinal dataset to analyze how children's participation in public and voucher-assisted housing affects age-26 earnings and adult incarceration. Naive OLS estimates suggest that returns to subsidized housing participation are negative, but that relationship is driven by household selection into assisted housing. Household fixed effects estimates indicate that additional years of public housing increase earnings by 6.2 percent for females and 6.1 percent for males, while voucher-assisted housing increases earnings by 4.8 percent for females and 2.7 percent for males. Childhood participation in assisted housing also reduces the likelihood of adult incarceration for all household race/ ethnicity groups.