Neighborhood effects and housing vouchers

Artikel

Researchers and policy makers have explored the possibility of restricting the use of housing vouchers to neighborhoods that may positively affect the outcomes of children. Using the framework of a dynamic model of optimal location choice, we estimate preferences over neighborhoods of likely recipients of housing vouchers in Los Angeles. We combine simulations of the model with estimates of how locations affect adult earnings of children to understand how a voucher policy that restricts neighborhoods in which voucher-recipients may live affects both the location decisions of households and the adult earnings of children. We show the model can nearly replicate the impact of the Moving to Opportunity experiment on the adult wages of children. Simulations suggest a policy that restricts housing vouchers to the top 20% of neighborhoods maximizes expected aggregate adult earnings of children of households offered these vouchers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Quantitative Economics ; ISSN: 1759-7331 ; Volume: 12 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 1307-1346 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Inequality ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics ; Production Analysis and Firm Location: Government Policy
• Subject: Neighborhood choice ; housing vouchers

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Davis, Morris A. ; Gregory, Jesse ; Hartley, Daniel A. ; Tan, Kegon T.K.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The Econometric Society
• (where): New Haven, CT
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3982/QE1664
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/253610
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET