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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20164
来源ID	Working Paper 20164
	Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery
	Brian Jacob; Max Kapustin; Jens Ludwig
发表日期	2014-05-30
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in their human capital. But it is also possible that whatever causes parents to have low incomes might also directly influence children's development, in which case transfer programs need not improve poor children's long-term life chances. While several recent influential studies suggest anti-poverty programs have larger human capital effects per dollar spent than do even the best educational interventions, identification is a challenge because most transfer programs are entitlements. We overcome that problem by studying the effects on children of a generous transfer program that is heavily rationed--means-tested housing assistance. We take advantage of a randomized housing voucher lottery in Chicago in 1997, for which 82,607 people applied, and use administrative data on schooling, arrests, and health to track children's outcomes over 14 years. We focus on families living in unsubsidized private housing at baseline, for whom voucher receipt generates large changes in both housing and non-housing consumption. Estimated effects are mostly statistically insignificant and always much smaller than those from recent studies of cash transfers, and are smaller on a per dollar basis than the best educational interventions.
主题	Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Real Estate
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20164
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577860
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Brian Jacob,Max Kapustin,Jens Ludwig. Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery. 2014.