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The ABC of Housing Strategies: Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective in Enhancing Children's Well Being?

This paper examines the effect of a housing assistance program on school enrollment, child labor and poverty reduction among poor families in Ecuador. Administrative data is merged to a household panel to link the history of a voucher application with socioeconomic information. Two empirical approaches are employed. First, I exploit variation in duration of the different stages to obtain a voucher and convert it into a house, using a sample of approved applicants. Second, I use variation across siblings that arises from the fact that siblings are exposed to the program at different ages. Results show that the program improves enrollment into post-compulsory education, decreases the probability that a child participates in the labor market and reduces the likelihood to live in poverty. Potential mediating factors are increased access to sanitation, better quality materials of the house and a reduced probability to live overcrowded.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 12-074/3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Education: Government Policy
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Thema
Housing assistance programs
Housing voucher
Children
Fixed Effects
Within family estimators
Developing country
Ecuador

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rosero, Jose
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2012

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Rosero, Jose
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2012

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