The long-term effects of public housing on self-sufficiency

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Newman, SJ; Harkness, JM
• 署名单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1520-7108
• DOI: 10.1002/pam.1038
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 21-43
• 关键词: PROGRAM PARTICIPATION; sample attrition; michigan panel; income; MODEL

摘要

Recent years have witnessed an intensification of the debate about the fundamental purpose of public assistance to the poor and the effects of these programs on children. This study Uses enriched data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the efl cts of living in public housing as a child at some point between 1968 and 1982 on four young adult outcomes: welfare receipt; individual earnings; household earnings relative to the federal poverty line; and employment. Living in public housing during childhood increased employment, raised earnings, and reduced welfare use, but had no effect on household earnings relative to the poverty line. The beneficial effects could have arisen because public housing improved physical living conditions, reduced residential mobility, or enabled families to spend more of their income on items that benefit children development. Whether these effects apply to contemporary public housing is unknown. (C) 2002 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.