期刊名称:CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度:2008
卷号:1
出版社:Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要:In order to test for the effect of public housing occupancy on unemployment, we estimate a
simultaneous probit model of unemployment and public housing. On a first sample, we instrument
public housing with the gender composition of children. On a second sample, the instrument is the
share of public housing at the city level. We also perform a robustness check that consists in
measuring the correlation between unobservables that could explain the effect of public housing on
unemployment. As the corresponding level of correlation is low, this check reinforces our result of
no effect of public housing on unemployment.