Working Paper: NBER ID: w22721
Authors: Fredrik Andersson; John C. Haltiwanger; Mark J. Kutzbach; Giordano E. Palloni; Henry O. Pollakowski; Daniel H. Weinberg
Abstract: We create a national-level longitudinal data set to analyze how children’s participation in public and voucher-assisted housing affects age 26 earnings and adult incarceration. Naïve OLS estimates suggest that returns to subsidized housing participation are negative, but that relationship is driven by household selection into assisted housing. Household fixed-effects estimates indicate that additional years of public housing and voucher-assisted housing increase adult earnings by 4.9% and 4.7% for females and 5.1% and 2.6% for males, respectively. Childhood participation in assisted housing also reduces the likelihood of adult incarceration for males and females from all household race/ethnicity groups.
Keywords: housing vouchers; public housing; adult earnings; incarceration; longitudinal analysis
JEL Codes: I38; J15; J31; J62; R23
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| additional years spent in public housing (R28) | adult earnings (J31) |
| participation in housing choice vouchers (R21) | adult earnings (J31) |
| childhood participation in subsidized housing (R21) | likelihood of adult incarceration (K14) |
| teenage participation in subsidized housing (R21) | adult earnings (J31) |
| teenage participation in subsidized housing (R21) | likelihood of adult incarceration (K14) |
| non-Hispanic Black females in HCV-assisted housing (I19) | earnings premium (J31) |