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Beschreibung:
This paper draws on data from the Monitoring Mt. Laurel Study, a new survey-based study that enables us to compare residents living in an affordable housing project in a middle-class New Jersey suburb to a comparable group of non-residents. We test the hypothesis that living in this housing project improves a poor person’s economic prospects relative to what they would have experienced in the absence of such housing, and that these improved prospects can be explained at least in part by reduced exposure to disorder and stressful life events. We find that residents in the Ethel Lawrence Homes are significantly less to experience disorder and negative life events and that this improvement in circumstances indirectly improves the likelihood of being employed, earnings, and the share of income from earnings. We find no relationship between residence in the housing project and the likelihood of using welfare