Residential and School Mobility after Receiving a Housing Choice Voucher: The Effects on Student Academic Outcomes

当低收入家庭收到住房选择代金券(丙型肝炎病毒)时，这种租金补贴可能会使他们有可能搬到孩子们可以进入提高他们教育结果的学校的社区。这项研究考察了感染丙型肝炎病毒如何影响家庭的居住选择和社区环境，以及这如何影响孩子的入学人数和学校特征。此外，通过对学生学业记录的分析，这项研究考察了丙型肝炎病毒感染和随后的重新安置如何影响学生的短期和长期教育结果。通过加深对住房代金券收据、入学人数和教育结果之间关系的理解，本研究为负责执行住房代金券政策和实践的住房当局以及努力支持低收入学生的学区提供决策参考。本研究致力于四个目标：1)记录其家庭获得住房选择代金券(HCV)的学生的社区背景和入学模式的变化；2)为这些家庭确定进入不同学校集中地区的结构性障碍；3)评估住房和学校选择如何相互影响代金券的使用并影响随后的居住和学校流动性；以及4)确定代金券接收对学生教育结果的影响。这项研究利用了跨越2000-2022年的四个层面的数据：学生层面、家庭层面、学校层面和社区层面。通过结合地理空间分析、离散选择建模和差异分析，该项目评估了家庭与他们的代金券一起搬到哪里，他们的居住轨迹如何与学校入学保持一致，以及代金券收据如何影响学生的结果，包括考试成绩、高中毕业和大学入学。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

When low-income households receive a housing choice voucher (HCV), this rent subsidy may make it possible to move to neighborhoods where children have access to schools that improve their educational outcomes. This study examines how receiving an HCV shapes families’ residential choices and neighborhood contexts, and how this influences their children’s school enrollment and school characteristics. Additionally, through an analysis of the students’ academic records, this study examines how HCV receipt and subsequent relocation shapes students’ short- and long-term educational outcomes. By advancing understanding of the relationship between housing voucher receipt, school enrollment, and educational outcomes, this study informs the decision-making of housing authorities responsible for implementing housing voucher policy and practice and school districts working to support low-income students. This study addresses four objectives: 1) document changes in neighborhood contexts and school enrollment patterns of students whose families receive housing choice vouchers (HCVs); 2) identify structural barriers to accessing different school catchment areas for these families; 3) assess how housing and school choices mutually influence voucher use and affect subsequent residential and school mobility; and 4) identify the effects of voucher receipt on student educational outcomes. The study leveraged four levels of data spanning the years 2000-2022: student level, family level, school level, and neighborhood level. Through a combination of geospatial analyses, discrete choice modeling, and difference-in-difference analyses, this project assesses where families move with their vouchers, how their residential trajectories align with school enrollment, and how voucher receipt impacts student outcomes, including test-scores, high school graduation, and college enrollment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.