Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barnhardt, Sharon; Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini
• 署名单位: Duke University; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20150397
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1-32
• 关键词: slum relocation projects; neighborhood; ECONOMICS; bangkok; welfare

摘要

A housing lottery in an Indian City provided winning slun dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years later, winners report improved housing but no change in tenure security, family income, or human capital. Winners also report increased isolation from family and caste networks and reduced informal insurance. We observe significant program exit: 34 percent of winners never took up subsidized housing and 32 percent eventually exited. Our results suggest negligible long-run economic value of this expensive public program and point to the importance of considering social networks in housing programs for the poor