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The Effect of Emergency Financial Assistance on Employment and Earnings

Hungerman, Daniel M.; Phillips, David C.; Rinz, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the labor supply effects of short-term income transfers for families experiencing a housing crisis. We link callers of an emergency assistance homelessness prevention hotline to their federal tax records and measure their employment & earnings in years surrounding their calls. Our...

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Rent Guarantee Insurance

Abramson, Boaz; Nieuwerburgh, Stijn van - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A rent guarantee insurance (RGI) policy makes a limited number of rent payments to the landlord on behalf of an insured tenant unable to pay rent due to a negative income or health expenditure shock. We introduce RGI in a rich quantitative equilibrium model of housing insecurity and show it...

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Impacts of Basic Income on Health and Economic Well-Being : Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program

Silver, David; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study impacts of a cash transfer program with no means-test and no work restrictions: the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Disability Compensation program. Our empirical strategy leverages quasi-random assignment of veterans claiming mental disorder disability to examiners who vary in...

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The effect of housing first programs on future homelessness and socioeconomic outcomes

Cohen, Elior - 2022

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Do early episodes of depression and anxiety make homelessness more likely?

Moschion, Julie; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

This paper studies the relationship between early mental health episodes and early homelessness, focusing on depression and anxiety amongst disadvantaged Australians. Using data from the Australian Journeys Home survey, we investigate whether the early onset of mental health conditions make a...

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Eviction and poverty in American cities

Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas; … - 2022

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Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness

Meyer, Bruce D.; Wyse, Angela; Williams, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicate an unprecedented 43 percent increase in the number of people residing in homeless shelters in the United States between 2022 and 2024, reversing the gradual decline over the preceding sixteen years. Three-quarters of this...

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Examining the roots of homelessness : the impact of regional housing market conditions and the social environment on homelessness in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Kröll, Alexandra; Farhauer, Oliver - 2012

Trotz umfangreicher staatlicher Programme zur Bekämpfung von Obdachlosigkeit kann diese mit den üblicherweise … Entstehung von Obdachlosigkeit beitragen, zu untersuchen und so Ansatzpunkte zu deren weiterer Reduktion auszumachen. Zunächst … Obdachlosigkeit hergestellt. Aus dem Modell lässt sich ein kritisches Einkommen, das den Konsum von Wohnraum gewährleistet, ableiten …

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Die Akzeptanz gesetzlicher Initiativen zur Energiewende: Das Beispiel "Gesetz zum Neustart der Digitalisierung der Energiewende"

Gegner, Martin - 2023

Am 21. April 2023 wurde das Gesetz zum Neustart der Digitalisierung der Energiewende (GNDEW), eingebracht von den Fraktionen Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, der SPD sowie der FDP und federführend entwickelt vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK), vom Bundestag, verabschiedet....

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Bargaining over a New Welfare State

Bonatti, Alessandro; Thomsson, Kaj - 2007

The goal of this paper is twofold: First, to develop an estimable model of legislative politics in the US Congress, second, to provide a greater understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the theoretical model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the...

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