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Resolving Long-Term Homelessness : A Randomised Controlled Trial Examining the 36 Month Costs, Benefits and Social Outcomes From the Journey to Social Inclusion Pilot Program

Johnson, Guy - 2019

Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) is a pilot project designed to break the cycle of long-term homelessness. This report presents the social and economic outcomes after the completion of the pilot. The evaluation uses a randomised controlled trial that tracks the outcomes of J2SI participants...

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Sustaining Exits From Long-Term Homelessness : A Randomised Controlled Trial Examining the 48 Month Social Outcomes From the Journey to Social Inclusion Pilot Program

Johnson, Guy - 2019

Journey to Social Inclusion was a three year pilot that provided intensive support designed to break the cycle of long-term homelessness. This report presents the social and economic outcomes of the J2SI pilot. It covers the three years the trial ran, and the 12 month period following the...

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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City

Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020

Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I 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...

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The Effects of U.S. Low-Income Housing Programs on Recipient Consumption and Wellbeing

Olsen, Edgar O.; Early, Dirk W. - 2023

This paper is the first to provide evidence on several key aspects of the comparative performance of the major types of housing assistance in the U.S. – HUD’s public housing and housing voucher programs, its largest programs that subsidize the operation of privately owned housing projects,...

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Can mistargeting destroy social capital and stimulate crime? : evidence from a cash transfer program in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa Ann; Shah, Manisha - 2012

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities … financial costs that have been the focus of the literature to date. -- cash transfer programs ; crime ; mistargeting ; social …

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Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs : Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura; Mello, Joao M. P. de; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

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The effect of workfare on crime : incapacitation and program effects

Fallesen, Peter; Pico Geerdsen, Lars; Imai, Susumu; … - 2014

In this paper, we estimate the effect of workfare policy on crime by exploiting two exogenous welfare policy changes in … Denmark. Our results show a strong decline in the crime rate among treated unemployment uninsured men relative to untreated … lasting crime reducing effect of workfare policy. …

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