Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the faculty director of the NYU Furman Center. She will be presenting a lecture, as part of the CRP research lecture series, this Thursday on the potential correlations between housing vouchers and the educational outcomes for children.
Abstract:
At a cost of roughly $18 billion in 2016, the Housing Choice Voucher program is the largest federally funded housing assistance program. Despite the large scope of the program, evidence about the effects of vouchers on the educational outcome of children remains fairly limited. Ellen’s work adds to the literature by estimating the short-term impact of vouchers on the performance of students in New York City public schools. Her results suggest that students in voucher households perform better in both reading and math in the years they receive a voucher, and that impacts for students who move and those who lease in place are statistically indistinguishable, suggesting that the stability and additional disposable income that vouchers provide play a large role in explaining the results.
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