The Benefits of Rental Assistance for Children's Health and School Attendance in the United States.
The Benefits of Rental Assistance for Children's Health and School Attendance in the United States.
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10.1215/00703370-9305166
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2021-08-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Newman SJ
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Fenelon A;Boudreaux M;Slopen N;Newman SJ
提供负担得起的稳定住房的方案可能有助于改善儿童健康，从而减少缺课天数。利用调查和行政数据的独特联系，我们使用准实验方法来研究租金援助计划对因病缺课的影响。我们比较了接受租赁援助的儿童因疾病而缺课的天数，以及那些在面试后两年内将获得援助的儿童，即联邦租赁援助等待名单的平均长度。总的来说，我们发现，相对于那些在伪等待组，谁收到租金援助的孩子错过了更少的日子上学，由于疾病。我们证明，租金援助导致儿童的健康问题的数量减少，从而减少因疾病而缺课的天数。我们发现，租金援助的影响错过上学日是更强的青少年比年幼的孩子。此外，种族分层分析表明，租赁援助导致非西班牙裔白色和西班牙裔/拉丁裔儿童因疾病而错过的天数减少;然而，这种效果对非西班牙裔黑人儿童并不明显，这是接受援助的最大种族/族裔群体。这些研究结果表明，在负担得起的住房投资不足可能会阻碍弱势非西班牙裔白色和西班牙裔/拉丁裔儿童的社会经济流动性。相比之下，租金援助的增加可能会扩大弱势儿童健康方面的种族/民族差异，未来的研究应探讨为什么这种好处对黑人儿童并不明显。
Programs that provide affordable and stable housing may contribute to better child health and thus to fewer missed days of school. Drawing on a unique linkage of survey and administrative data, we use a quasi-experimental approach to examine the impact of rental assistance programs on missed days of school due to illness. We compare missed school days due to illness among children receiving rental assistance with those who will enter assistance within two years of their interview, the average length of waitlists for federal rental assistance. Overall, we find that children who receive rental assistance miss fewer days of school due to illness relative to those in the pseudo-waitlist group. We demonstrate that rental assistance leads to a reduction in the number of health problems among children and thus to fewer days of school missed due to illness. We find that the effect of rental assistance on missed school days is stronger for adolescents than for younger children. Additionally, race-stratified analyses reveal that rental assistance leads to fewer missed days due to illness among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latino children; this effect, however, is not evident for non-Hispanic Black children, the largest racial/ethnic group receiving assistance. These findings suggest that underinvestment in affordable housing may impede socioeconomic mobility among disadvantaged non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latino children. In contrast, increases in rental assistance may widen racial/ethnic disparities in health among disadvantaged children, and future research should examine why this benefit is not evident for Black children.
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