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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Economic Geography Année : 2009

Does public housing occupancy increase unemployment?

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This paper shows that living in public housing has no effect on the probability of being unemployed in France, once we account for the endogeneity of public housing. We estimate a simultaneous probit model of unemployment and public housing. On a first sample for Lyon, we instrument public housing with the gender composition of children. On a second national sample, the instrument is the city-level share of public housing. Both samples yield the same conclusion, which we justify by showing that a small amount of selection on unobservables is enough to eliminate the positive effect found in “naive” estimates.
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halshs-00436679 , version 1 (27-11-2009)

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Claire Dujardin, Florence Goffette-Nagot. Does public housing occupancy increase unemployment?. Journal of Economic Geography, 2009, 9, pp. 823-851. ⟨10.1093/jeg/lbp002⟩. ⟨halshs-00436679⟩
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