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Improving evaluation for social housing: methods and data

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This paper highlights several important issues that if addressed could improve the methodology around cost-benefit analysis and social return on investment as used in the affordable and social housing sector. First, by focussing on the causal impacts of policies and programs rather than just outcomes. The econometrics of program evaluation provides a way to do this but hasn't been broadly applied in this sector. Second, there needs to be greater attention to cohort-specific impacts. Thirdly, collection of larger quantities of cohort specific data, where possible, linked would assist in identifying cohort specific impacts. We also review recent work done at Infrastructure Victoria applying this approach to estimating the impacts of social housing on employment, education, health, incarceration and homelessness.

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  • Infrastructure Victoria, 2018. "Improving evaluation for social housing: methods and data," Policy papers 201802, Infrastructure Victoria.
    • Handle: RePEc:inv:ppaper:201802
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    Keywords

    Cost-Benefit Analysis; Program Evaluation; Treatment Effects; Social Housing; Homelessness; Australia; Victoria.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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