Building Self-Sufficiency for Housing Voucher Recipients: Interim Findings from the Work Rewards Demonstration in New York City

New York: MDRC, June 2015

236 Pages Posted: 30 Sep 2015

Date Written: June 17, 2015

Abstract

This report presents four-year findings from a test of three interventions: the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, FSS plus cash work incentives, and cash work incentives alone. FSS incentives improved employment and earnings among participants who were not working at study entry, but none of the interventions had impacts for participants overall.

Keywords: random assignment, work incentives, education incentives, housing vouchers, poverty

JEL Classification: J23, D60, I38

Suggested Citation

Nunez, Stephen and Verma, Nandita and Yang, Edith, Building Self-Sufficiency for Housing Voucher Recipients: Interim Findings from the Work Rewards Demonstration in New York City (June 17, 2015). New York: MDRC, June 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2662077

Stephen Nunez (Contact Author)

MDRC ( email )

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New York, NY 10281
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Nandita Verma

MDRC ( email )

200 Vesey Street
10281
United States

Edith Yang

MDRC

200 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10016-4326
United States

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