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: 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
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