The association between social housing type and children's developmental outcomes

Bilal Nasim ()
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Bilal Nasim: Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University College London

No 15-07, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: This paper is the first to investigate the association between social housing type and children's developmental outcomes. I compare the non-cognitive, cognitive and health outcomes of children in council-rented self-contained flats with children in council-rented semi-detached houses and explore the role of housing and neighbourhood quality in explaining differences in outcomes across the two types of social housing. I find that children in flats exhibit statistically significantly worse non-cognitive outcomes than children in houses and this deficit is not attributable to the child's socioeconomic, parental, family or own characteristics. Over half of this deficit is explained by the poorer housing quality of flats compared with houses. No differential, however, is found in the cognitive outcomes of children in council-rented flats and children in council-rented houses. The evidence on child health outcomes is mixed. No deficit is found in the general health of children in flats, although they are found to exhibit greater coughing and sleeping difficulties. Just under half of the greater sleeping difficulties of children in flats is again accounted for by the poorer housing quality of flats.

Keywords: Social Housing Type; Child Outcomes; Housing Quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-07-07
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