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The Effect of a Program‐Based Housing Move on Employment: HOPE VI in Atlanta
Author(s) -
Anil Bulent,
Sjoquist David L.,
Wallace Sally
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
southern economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 2325-8012
pISSN - 0038-4038
DOI - 10.4284/sej.2010.77.1.138
Subject(s) - atlanta , voucher , public housing , demographic economics , labour economics , unit (ring theory) , economics , business , economic growth , public administration , political science , public economics , geography , psychology , metropolitan area , mathematics education , accounting , archaeology
We combine records of Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) clients, Georgia Department of Labor (DOL) employment records, and neighborhood characteristics to analyze the causal effect of an exogenous move out of public housing on the employment of public housing residents. The exogenous move was caused by a HOPE VI or HOPE VI‐like project in Atlanta. We find that such an exogenous move has a positive and statistically significant effect on the probability of employment for those residents who moved relative to other public housing tenants. We also compare the change in employment of those whose exogenous move was to another public housing unit to those who took a housing voucher. We also compare the change in the probability of employment associated with an exogenous move and a voluntary move and find that both types of moves are associated with a greater probability of employment as compared to those who did not move.