Long-term earnings and employment effects of housing voucher receipt

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 128-150

  Carlson, Deven ^a   Haveman, Robert ^a   Kaplan, Tom ^a   Wolfe, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings; Employment; Housing vouchers; Matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955194563     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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