Childhood Housing and Adult Earnings: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing

69 Pages Posted: 10 Oct 2016 Last revised: 30 Jan 2023

See all articles by Fredrik Andersson

Fredrik Andersson

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

John Haltiwanger

University of Maryland - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Mark J. Kutzbach

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Giordano E Palloni

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Henry Pollakowski

Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Design

Daniel H. Weinberg

DHW Consulting

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Date Written: October 2016

Abstract

We create a national-level longitudinal data set to analyze how children’s participation in public and voucher-assisted housing affects age 26 earnings and adult incarceration. Naïve OLS estimates suggest that returns to subsidized housing participation are negative, but that relationship is driven by household selection into assisted housing. Household fixed-effects estimates indicate that additional years of public housing and voucher-assisted housing increase adult earnings by 4.9% and 4.7% for females and 5.1% and 2.6% for males, respectively. Childhood participation in assisted housing also reduces the likelihood of adult incarceration for males and females from all household race/ethnicity groups.

Suggested Citation

Andersson, Per Fredrik Daniel and Haltiwanger, John C. and Kutzbach, Mark J. and Palloni, Giordano E and Pollakowski, Henry O. and Weinberg, Daniel H., Childhood Housing and Adult Earnings: A Between-Siblings Analysis of Housing Vouchers and Public Housing (October 2016). NBER Working Paper No. w22721, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2850255

Per Fredrik Daniel Andersson (Contact Author)

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) ( email )

400 7th St. SW
Washington, DC 20219-0001
United States
202-649-5528 (Phone)
571-465-3246 (Fax)

John C. Haltiwanger

University of Maryland - Department of Economics ( email )

College Park, MD 20742
United States
301-405-3504 (Phone)
301-405-3542 (Fax)

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ( email )

1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) ( email )

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

Mark J. Kutzbach

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ( email )

550 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

Giordano E Palloni

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ( email )

1201 Eye St, NW,
Washington, DC 20005
United States

Henry O. Pollakowski

Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Design ( email )

48 Quincy Street
Gund Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Daniel H. Weinberg

DHW Consulting ( email )

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
70
Abstract Views
647
Rank
278,522
PlumX Metrics