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Do Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Minority Children Depend on Their Age? Evidence From a Public Housing Natural Experiment

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  • George Galster
  • Anna Maria Santiago

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We analyze data from a natural experiment involving Denver public housing that quasirandomly assigns low-income Latino and African American youth to neighborhoods. Intent-to-treat and treatment-on-treated models reveal substantial effects of neighborhood socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and safety domains on youth and young adult educational, employment, and fertility outcomes. Effects are contingent on when a youth was first assigned to public housing and the neighborhood characteristic in question. Benefits from neighbors of higher occupational prestige are stronger if a child begins experiencing them at a younger age, whereas negative consequences of neighborhood crime are only manifested for teens. Neighborhood effect sizes apparently depend on the interaction among exposure duration, disruption effects of mobility, and developmental stage-specific differences in vulnerability to the given neighborhood effect mechanism operative. Our results hold powerful and provocative implications for where assisted housing should be developed and how applicants should be assigned to neighborhoods.

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  • George Galster & Anna Maria Santiago, 2017. "Do Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Minority Children Depend on Their Age? Evidence From a Public Housing Natural Experiment," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(4), pages 584-610, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:27:y:2017:i:4:p:584-610
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2016.1254098
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    1. Aarland, Kristin & Santiago, Anna Maria & Galster, George C. & Nordvik, Viggo, 2021. "Childhood Housing Tenure and Young Adult Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Sibling Comparisons in Norway," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    2. van Ham, Maarten & Manley, David & Tammaru, Tiit, 2022. "Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality," IZA Discussion Papers 15153, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. David J. Harding & Lisa Sanbonmatsu & Greg J. Duncan & Lisa A. Gennetian & Lawrence F. Katz & Ronald C. Kessler & Jeffrey R. Kling & Matthew Sciandra & Jens Ludwig, 2023. "Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(2), pages 453-486, March.
    4. Lina Hedman & Maarten van Ham, 2021. "Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(2), pages 129-141.
    5. Lina Hedman & David Manley & Maarten van Ham, 2019. "Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(5), pages 1-21, May.
    6. George C. Galster & Anna Maria Santiago & Richard J. Smith & Joffre Leroux, 2019. "Benefit–Cost Analysis of an Innovative Program for Self-Sufficiency and Homeownership," Evaluation Review, , vol. 43(1-2), pages 3-40, February.

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