Does public housing occupancy increase unemployment?

Claire Dujardin and Florence Goffette-Nagot

No 2008078, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: In order to test for the effect of public housing occupancy on unemployment, we estimate a simultaneous probit model of unemployment and public housing. On a first sample, we instrument public housing with the gender composition of children. On a second sample, the instrument is the share of public housing at the city level. We also perform a robustness check that consists in measuring the correlation between unobservables that could explain the effect of public housing on unemployment. As the corresponding level of correlation is low, this check reinforces our result of no effect of public housing on unemployment.

Keywords: public housing; unemployment; simultaneous probit models; instrumental variables. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12-01
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