This paper explores the characteristics and causes of homeless families with children using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. These unique data measure a rich set of risk factors likely thought to influence homelessness at the individual, household, and city level. We find that homelessness is most strongly linked to informal and institutional social support, and is only modestly ...

High rates of imprisonment among American fathers have motivated an ongoing examination of incarceration's role in family life. A growing literature suggests that incarceration creates material and socioemotional challenges not only for prisoners and former prisoners but also for their families and communities. The authors examined the relationship between fathers' incarceration and one such ch...

A long-standing policy goal of aid is to narrow, if not close, the parental income gap in children's subsequent educational attainment. Recent research indicates that credit constraints have played a larger role in college enrollment and completion rates over the past 15-20 years (Lochner and Monge-Naranjo, 2011; Lovenheim, 2011). Prior evidence found greater credit constraints in the US than C...

This paper investigates single-family residential development for housing market equilibria using microeconomic theory and disaggregate spatial data. Mixed logit models and notions of price competition are used to simulate household location choices for three different household segments, assuming job sites of household members are known. Consistent with bid-rent theory, housing market equilibr...

Abstract Background Homelessness is associated with health problems and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The risk of chronic conditions for homeless compared to housed youth, how this interacts ACEs remains unclear. This study investigated the relationship between ACEs, housing, child health, whether: 1) vary by housing context; 2) homelessness confer independent risks; 3) interact regard ...

BACKGROUND Housing sheep in insulated, warm buildings, which is common in Norway, involves high buildings costs, but has not been reported to improve health and performance. Few studies have dealt with the association between housing and management and reproductive performance.Data on housing and management during the indoor period from a questionnaire were merged with herd level data from the ...

In this paper I sketch some of the practical connections between two kinds of displacement: experiential ^material displacement and discursive or metaphorical displacement. I examine these connections in the context of legal struggles over the eviction of families from public housing. The evictions were authorized on the basis of interpretations of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (the `One Stri...

In this study we investigate spatial dimensions of housing-market dynamics in the City of Milwaukee by modeling the determinants of housing prices. From the 2003 Master Property data file of the city, two sets of owner-occupied single-family houses were randomly selected (one to construct the models, and the other to rest the models). Besides conventional housing attributes, remote-sensing info...