Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago
利用芝加哥公共住房拆除带来的外生变化，研究发现受影响的儿童在学业表现上与同龄人无显著差异，这可能是因为搬迁后的社区和学校与原来相似。
This paper utilizes a plausibly exogenous source of variation in housing assistance generated by public housing demolitions in Chicago to examine the impact of high-rise public housing on student outcomes. I find that children in households affected by the demolitions do no better or worse than their peers on a wide variety of achievement measures. Because the majority of households that leave high-rise public housing in response to the demolitions move to neighborhoods and schools that closely resemble those they left, the zero effect of the demolitions may be interpreted as the independent impact of public housing.