Replication data for: Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sharon Barnhardt; Erica Field; Rohini Pande

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Project Citation:

Barnhardt, Sharon, Field, Erica, and Pande, Rohini. Replication data for: Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113659V1

Project Description

Summary: 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, winners report improved housing but no change in tenure security, family income, or human capital. Winners also report increased isolation from family and caste networks and reduced informal insurance. We observe significant program exit: 34 percent of winners never took up subsidized housing and 32 percent eventually exited. Our results suggest negligible long-run economic value of this expensive public program and point to the importance of considering social networks in housing programs for the poor.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
      R31 Housing Supply and Markets
      R38 Production Analysis and Firm Location: Government Policy
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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