Does residential location matter to the employment of TANF recipients? Evidence from a dynamic discrete choice model with unobserved effects

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 325-351

  Gurmu, Shiferaw ^a   Ihlanfeldt, Keith R ^b   Smith, William J ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data; Public housing residents; Space; Welfare to work

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249005227     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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