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Housing Vouchers and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Jens Ludwig (Georgetown University)
Greg Duncan (Northwestern University)
Joshua Pinkston (Nothwestern University)
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Housing policies for low-income families may affect the concentration of poverty in America, which could in turn affect the ability of families receiving housing services to become economically self-sufficient. In this paper we examine the effects of a randomized housing- voucher experiment on welfare receipt and labor market outcomes, both of which are measured using state administrative data. We find that providing families in high-poverty public housing areas with housing vouchers that can only be redeemed in low-poverty neighborhoods reduces rates of welfare use by around 6 percentage points. Most of this reduction in welfare receipt appears to be explained by differences in welfare-to-work transitions. We also find that providing families with unrestricted housing vouchers has little effect on economic outcomes beyond the first year.
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