We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program … lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find that public housing increases high school graduation by seven …. Their children also attend better schools and live in neighborhoods with less crime …

,500 children. Our empirical strategy compares children exposed to the program to children drawn from thousands of non … find that children who resided in HOPE VI projects earn 14% more at age 26 relative to children in comparable non-HOPE VI … improvements in household or neighborhood environments that promote human capital development in children. Rather, subsequent …

children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on … test scores for any age group among over 5000 children ages 6 to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after …

enables us to analyze how children's housing experiences affect adult earnings and incarceration rates. While naive estimates …

housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long … college attendance rates and earnings for children who were young (below age 13) when their families moved. These children … are substantial: children whose families take up an experimental voucher to move to a lower-poverty area when they are …

Recent research documents a causal impact of place on the long-run outcomes of children. However, little is known about …

participants who moved to lower poverty neighborhoods as young children experienced better access to and greater use of credit into … adult and older children experience the same benefits to credit outcomes, we do find they experience improvements in … children whose families received unrestricted Section 8 vouchers have significantly lower payday loan usage …

that may positively affect the outcomes of children. Using the framework of a dynamic model of optimal location choice, we … model with estimates of how locations affect adult earnings of children to understand how a voucher policy that restricts … children. We show the model can nearly replicate the impact of the Moving to Opportunity experiment on the adult wages of …