Housing Voucher Take-Up and Labor Market Impacts.
Housing Voucher Take-Up and Labor Market Impacts.
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10.1002/pam.22104
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2019
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Kapustin M
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作者：
Chyn E;Hyman J;Kapustin M
政府援助项目的低参与率是美国的一个主要政策问题。本文研究了第8条住房代金券的接受率，这是一个在感兴趣的符合条件的家庭中接受率相当低的计划。我们将通过抽奖获得代金券的18,109个芝加哥家庭与行政数据联系起来，研究基线就业、收入、公共援助、逮捕、居住地点和孩子的学业表现如何预测接受情况。我们的分析发现，关于最不利的家庭或陷入困境的家庭是否面临参与计划的最大障碍，证据不一。我们还通过利用代金券提供时间的特殊差异来研究同伴行为对接受程度的因果影响。我们发现，租借的概率随着最近收到代金券优惠的邻居的数量而增加。最后，我们通过对现有的购房券收据的因果影响估计应用重新加权的方法来探索增加购房券接受率的政策含义。这一分析表明，更多地利用代金券可能会导致劳动力市场活动的更大减少。在评估确定公共援助计划影响的研究的外部有效性时，不同环境的接受率差异可能是重要的考虑因素。©2018由公共政策分析与管理协会提供。
Low participation rates in government assistance programs are a major policy concern in the United States. This paper studies take-up of Section 8 housing vouchers, a program in which take-up rates are quite low among interested and eligible households. We link 18,109 households in Chicago that were offered vouchers through a lottery to administrative data and study how baseline employment, earnings, public assistance, arrests, residential location, and children’s academic performance predict take-up. Our analysis finds mixed evidence of whether the most disadvantaged or distressed households face the largest barriers to program participation. We also study the causal impact of peer behavior on take-up by exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the timing of voucher offers. We find that the probability of lease-up increases with the number of neighbors who recently received voucher offers. Finally, we explore the policy implications of increasing housing voucher take-up by applying reweighting methods to existing causal impact estimates of voucher receipt. This analysis suggests that greater utilization of vouchers may lead to larger reductions in labor market activity. Differences in take-up rates across settings may be important to consider when assessing the external validity of studies identifying the effects of public assistance programs. © 2018 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
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