Neighborhood Effects and School Performance: The Impact of Public Housing Demolitions on Children in North Carolina
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2011-04-18
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This study explores how the demolitions of particularly distressed public housing units, through the Home Ownership for People Everywhere (HOPE VI) grants program, have affected academic outcomes for children in adjacent neighborhoods in Durham and Wilmington, North Carolina. I measure neighborhood-level changes and individual effects through regression analysis. All students in demolition communities are compared to those in control communities: census blocks in the same cities with public housing units that were not demolished. Those in the Durham experiment community experienced statistically significant gains when compared to those in the control communities; the effect is insignificant in Wilmington.
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Agostino, Rebecca (2011). Neighborhood Effects and School Performance: The Impact of Public Housing Demolitions on Children in North Carolina. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/3551.
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