Curtis, Marah A.; Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly; … - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been … augmented with information from hospital medical records, we find that the health shock increases the likelihood of homelessness … three years later, particularly in cities with high housing costs. Homelessness is defined using both a traditional measure …