shows that children from the most vulnerable families are exposed to a lower-quality home environment—that is, less … early childhood development. In 2015–2016, during the second wave of the survey, an observational module on the home … acceptance) of a widely used instrument that measures the quality of the physical and emotional environment: the HOME inventory …

Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …

Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters … proceed from novel administrative data on homeless families observed in the context of a scarcity-induced natural experiment …

find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned … to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also access more public benefits and are more apt to work. A fixed effects … model assessing multi-spell families confirms these main results. Complementary instrumental variable and regression …