The Benefits of Rental Assistance for Children's Health and School Attendance in the United States.
Health inequality
Public housing
Rental assistance
School days
United States
Journal
Demography
ISSN: 1533-7790
Titre abrégé: Demography
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0226703
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 08 2021
01 08 2021
Historique:
pubmed:
11
5
2021
medline:
8
3
2022
entrez:
10
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Programs that provide affordable and stable housing may contribute to better child health and thus to fewer missed days of school. Drawing on a unique linkage of survey and administrative data, we use a quasi-experimental approach to examine the impact of rental assistance programs on missed days of school due to illness. We compare missed school days due to illness among children receiving rental assistance with those who will enter assistance within two years of their interview, the average length of waitlists for federal rental assistance. Overall, we find that children who receive rental assistance miss fewer days of school due to illness relative to those in the pseudo-waitlist group. We demonstrate that rental assistance leads to a reduction in the number of health problems among children and thus to fewer days of school missed due to illness. We find that the effect of rental assistance on missed school days is stronger for adolescents than for younger children. Additionally, race-stratified analyses reveal that rental assistance leads to fewer missed days due to illness among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latino children; this effect, however, is not evident for non-Hispanic Black children, the largest racial/ethnic group receiving assistance. These findings suggest that underinvestment in affordable housing may impede socioeconomic mobility among disadvantaged non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latino children. In contrast, increases in rental assistance may widen racial/ethnic disparities in health among disadvantaged children, and future research should examine why this benefit is not evident for Black children.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33970240
pii: 173456
doi: 10.1215/00703370-9305166
pmc: PMC8561436
mid: NIHMS1751479
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1171-1195Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD041025
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD041041
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : R21 HD095329
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 The Authors.
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