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Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India
- Source :
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 9:1-32
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- American Economic Association, 2017.
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Abstract
- A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery. Fourteen years later, relative to lottery losers, winners report improved housing farther from the city center, but no change in family income or human capital. Winners also report increased isolation from family and caste networks and lower access to informal insurance. We observe significant program exit: 34% of winners never moved into the subsidized housing and 32% eventually exited. Our results point to the importance of considering social networks when designing housing programs for the poor.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
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Population
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Subsidized housing
Family income
Human capital
jel:H42
Lottery
jel:R21
Income distribution
0502 economics and business
Economics
050207 economics
Moving to Opportunity
education
and growth
and transportation economics
economic development
innovation
mathematical and quantitative methods
public economics
real estate
regional
rural
technological change
urban
jel:C93
education.field_of_study
Poverty
05 social sciences
1. No poverty
021107 urban & regional planning
jel:O12
Demographic economics
Business
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Slum
jel:O18
Subjects
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- ISSN :
- 19457790 and 19457782
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d54ceb4b459b6d43f01eb3cb93f468c9