The Effect of Housing Assistance on Student Achievement: Evidence from Wisconsin

Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Sohyun Kang, Hannah Miller, Alex Schmidt and Barbara Wolfe ()
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Deven Carlson: Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma
Sohyun Kang: Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hannah Miller: Abt Associates
Alex Schmidt: Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series from Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Abstract: Drawing on a unique data set that links information on all Wisconsin households receiving means-tested benefits with the educational performance of all Wisconsin public school students in these households, we estimate the effect of a family’s initial receipt of housing assistance on students’ subsequent achievement outcomes. We estimate these effects using two different comparison groups. Our first comparison group consists of children living in households that receive housing assistance starting three years after our treatment group—we use observations from students’ pre-receipt years as the basis for the comparison. Our second comparison group consists of low-income students whose families never received housing assistance, but did receive other forms of means-tested benefits, such as SNAP, TANF, or Medicaid. The results of our analyses suggest small positive effects of housing benefit receipt on student achievement. We discuss the implications for research and policy.

Keywords: Housing vouchers; public housing; student achievement; administrative data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39pp
Date: 2017-07
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Journal Article: The effect of housing assistance on student achievement: Evidence from Wisconsin (2019)
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