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Neighborhood effects and housing vouchers
Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1307-1346
Researchers and policy makers have explored the possibility of restricting the use of housing vouchers to neighborhoods … estimate preferences over neighborhoods of likely recipients of housing vouchers in Los Angeles. We combine simulations of the … children. Simulations suggest a policy that restricts housing vouchers to the top 20% of neighborhoods maximizes expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795713
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Neighborhood Effects and Housing Vouchers
Davis, Morris A. - 2020
We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers …-impact neighborhoods. When vouchers are restricted such that they can only be applied in tracts with large effects on children, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854741
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Neighborhood choices, neighborhood effects and housing vouchers
Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - 2017
We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers …-impact neighborhoods. When vouchers are restricted such that they can only be applied in tracts with large effects on children, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776853
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Unpacking neighborhood effects : experimental evidence from a large-scale housing program in Brazil
Belchior, Carlos Alberto; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2023
This paper investigates the impacts of neighborhoods on the economic outcomes of adults. We exploit one of the world's largest housing lottery programs and administrative data linking lottery registration, formal employment, and access to social programs in Brazil. Receiving a house has positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276710
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Unpacking neighborhood effects : experimental evidence from a large-scale housing program in Brazil
Belchior, Carlos Alberto; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2023
This paper investigates the impacts of neighborhoods on the economic outcomes of adults. We exploit one of the world's largest housing lottery programs and administrative data linking lottery registration, formal employment, and access to social programs in Brazil. Receiving a house has positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014283255
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Neighborhood effects and housing vouchers
Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - In: Quantitative Economics 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1307-1346
Researchers and policy makers have explored the possibility of restricting the use of housing vouchers to neighborhoods … estimate preferences over neighborhoods of likely recipients of housing vouchers in Los Angeles. We combine simulations of the … children. Simulations suggest a policy that restricts housing vouchers to the top 20% of neighborhoods maximizes expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189767
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Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity : LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
Aliprantis, Dionissi - 2019
This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying transition-specific effects that exploits identification of the unobserved component of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905673
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Postwar Housing and Neighborhood Status
Rolheiser, Lyndsey - 2019
Many postwar neighborhood across the United States are exhibiting signs of decline previously only observed in older central cities. With the characteristics of postwar housing being arguably undesirable by current standards, extant literature claims this functional obsolescence is contributing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901803
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Segregation, housing and neighborhood dissimilarities : a case study for the city of Bochum
Bonakdar, Said Benjamin - 2021
The rising concentration of low-income households and ethnic minorities has become an important policy issue in Germany. The Ruhr Area is particularly interesting, because it is one of the largest conurbations in Europe and experienced radical structural changes in the past, which are connected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549543
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Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity
Aliprantis, Dionissi - 2011
The interpretation of estimates from Moving to Opportunity (MTO) as neighborhood effects has created significant controversy among social scientists. This paper presents a framework that clarifies the interpretation of results from the MTO housing mobility experiment. The paper defines several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131831