transfers decreases food insecurity and homelessness by 4.1% and 1.3% over five years, while the number of collections on VA … satisfaction. Apart from a reduction in self-reported pain, we estimate precise null effects on mental and physical health …

magnitude of health disparities associated with homelessness. We find that non-elderly people experiencing homelessness have 3 … persistent hardships associated with homelessness and show that the well-documented gradient between health and poverty persists …This paper examines the relationship between extreme socioeconomic disadvantage and poor health by providing the first …

Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels have a … variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this …

Official poverty statistics and even the extreme poverty literature largely ignore people experiencing homelessness. In … and unsheltered homeless people, the 2006-2016 American Community Survey (ACS), which surveys sheltered homeless people … homelessness patterns and allow us to compare estimates between data sources, including the Department of Housing and Urban …

of Medicaid on the use of health services among homeless adults indicate that Medicaid significantly increases the … service utilization using data from 1985 and 1987 surveys of New York City homeless single men and women. Simple regressions … further analyses that control for health status, use instrumental variables procedures, and examine differences between a …

tenant unable to pay rent due to a negative income or health expenditure shock. We introduce RGI in a rich quantitative … states of the world, reducing the need for a large security deposits, and reducing homelessness which imposes large costs on … break even, while public insurers focus on households most at-risk of homelessness …

augmented with information from hospital medical records, we find that the health shock increases the likelihood of homelessness …We exploit an exogenous health shock--the birth of a child with a severe health condition--to investigate the causal … effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been …

Despite widespread concern about homelessness, fundamental questions about the size and characteristics of this hard to … to study homelessness to less detailed public data. In doing this triangulation of sources, we examine the completeness … and accuracy of available data and improve our understanding of the size of the homeless population and its inclusion in …

Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people … experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme poverty literature. This paper … homeless taken from the 2010 Census, we link restricted-use longitudinal tax records and administrative data on the …

callers of an emergency assistance homelessness prevention hotline to their federal tax records and measure their employment …