The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

The housing choice voucher program was designed with two main goals in mind: to
eliminate concentrations of poverty and the social problems it causes and to provide poor …

This study estimates the effects of means-tested housing programs on labor supply using
data from a randomized housing voucher wait-list lottery in Chicago. Economic theory is …

Individuals participating in the HUD Housing Choice Voucher program, formerly Section 8,
can rent units in the private market and are not tied to public housing projects in a specific …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: We evaluate the role of transportation in improving
the employment outcomes of participants in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) for Fair …

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to investigate the
impact of housing instability in adolescence on the likelihood of subsequent graduation from …

We create a national-level longitudinal dataset to analyze how children's participation in
public and voucher-assisted housing affects age-26 earnings and adult incarceration. Naïve …

Lack of affordable housing is a growing and often primary policy concern in cities throughout
the world. The main underlying cause for the “affordability crisis,” which has been mounting …

To date, research on the long-term effects of childhood participation in voucher-assisted and
public housing has been limited by the lack of appropriate data and suitable identification …

Governments throughout the world intervene heavily in housing markets, and most have
multiple policies to pursue multiple goals. This chapter deals with two of the largest types of …