The Children of HOPE VI Demolitions: National Evidence on Labor Market Outcomes

Any opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed (q.v. U.S. Census Bureau Disclosure Review Board numbers: DRB-B0038-CED-20190405, DRB-B0071-CED-20190829, and CBDRB-FY20-CED0060029). Much of the work for this analysis was done while Mark Kutzbach was an employee of the Census Bureau. John Haltiwanger was a Schedule A (part-time) employee and Matthew Staiger a Pathways Intern of the U.S. Census Bureau at the time of the writing of this paper. This research has been supported by grant number 98082 from the “How Housing Matters” research program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, by NSF grant number 1730108, by a Research Partnership grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. This research uses data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program, which was partially supported by the following National Science Foundation Grants: SES-9978093, SES-0339191, and ITR-0427889; a National Institute on Aging Grant AG018854; and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The authors want to thank Mark Heller for valuable research assistance and Lydia Taghavi of HUD for data assistance. We thank James Spletzer, Erika McEntarfer, Katherine O’Regan and Amy Ellen Schwarz as well as participants at the Urban Economics Association, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Association for Public Policy and Management, and Southern Economics Association meetings for comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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