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The Effects of Eviction on Children / Robert Collinson, Deniz Dutz, John Eric Humphries, Nicholas S. Mader, Daniel Tannenbaum, Winnie van Dijk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collinson, Robert.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w33659.
- NBER working paper series no. w33659
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2025.
- Summary:
- Eviction may be an important channel for the intergenerational transmission of poverty, and concerns about its effects on children are often raised as a rationale for tenant protection policies. We study how eviction impacts children's home environment, school engagement, educational achievement, and high school completion. To do so, we assemble new datasets linking eviction court records in Chicago and New York to administrative public school records and restricted Census records. To disentangle the consequences of eviction from the effects of correlated sources of economic distress, we use a research design based on the random assignment of court cases to judges who vary in their leniency. We find that eviction increases children's residential mobility, homelessness, and likelihood of moving in with grandparents or other adults. Eviction also disrupts school engagement, causing increased absences and school changes. Lastly, we find that eviction reduces high school course credits and high school graduation. We use a novel bounding method to show that the graduation finding is not driven by differential attrition. The disruptive effects of eviction are worse for boys. Our evidence suggests that the impact of eviction on children runs through the disruption to the home environment and school engagement rather than deterioration in school or neighborhood quality. These effects may be moderated by access to family support networks.
- Notes:
- April 2025.
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