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

当低收入家庭获得住房选择券（HCV）时，这种租金补贴可能使他们有可能搬到孩子有机会上学的社区，从而提高他们的教育成果。本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，以及这如何影响其子女的入学和学校特色。此外，通过对学生学业记录的分析，本研究考察了HCV接收和随后的搬迁如何影响学生的短期和长期教育成果。通过加深对住房券收据、入学率和教育成果之间关系的理解，本研究为负责实施住房券政策和实践的住房当局以及致力于支持低收入学生的学区的决策提供了信息。本研究旨在实现以下四个目标：1)记录接受住房选择券（hcv）家庭的学生在社区环境和入学模式方面的变化；2)确定这些家庭进入不同学校集水区的结构性障碍；3)评估住房和学校选择如何相互影响代金券的使用，并影响随后的住房和学校流动性；4)确定代金券收据对学生教育成果的影响。该研究利用了从2000年到2022年的四个层面的数据：学生水平、家庭水平、学校水平和社区水平。通过结合地理空间分析、离散选择模型和差异中之差分析，本项目评估了携带代金券的家庭迁移的地点、他们的居住轨迹与入学情况的一致性，以及代金券接收对学生成绩（包括考试成绩、高中毕业和大学入学）的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.