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Title: Are Housing Characteristics Experienced by Children Associated with their Outcomes as Young Adults?
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1. Blau, David M.
Haskell, Nancy L.
Haurin, Donald R.
Are Housing Characteristics Experienced by Children Associated with their Outcomes as Young Adults?
Journal of Housing Economics 46 (December 2019): 101631.
Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137717301304
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Childhood Residence; Criminal Justice System; Educational Attainment; Housing/Housing Characteristics/Types; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Welfare

We study the association between childhood housing characteristics and homeownership and a set of behavioral outcomes of young adults. The primary data set is the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-1979 cohort (NLSY79) and the Child and Young Adult surveys of the children of the female NLSY79 respondents, augmented with a record of the characteristics of dwellings occupied by respondents and their children throughout childhood. We find that living in an owner-occupied home during childhood is positively associated with young adults' educational attainment, and is negatively associated with teen pregnancy, criminal convictions, and the likelihood of being on welfare. In contrast, a measure of residential crowding during childhood has an independent relationship only with youths' criminal convictions. We explore several mechanisms that could explain these long run patterns, including unobserved parental heterogeneity and childhood cognition.
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Blau, David M., Nancy L. Haskell and Donald R. Haurin. "Are Housing Characteristics Experienced by Children Associated with their Outcomes as Young Adults?" Journal of Housing Economics 46 (December 2019): 101631.