ArticleDemography2021
The Benefits of Rental Assistance for Children's Health and School Attendance in the United States.
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- Pandemic Emergency Household Rental Assistance and the Well-Being of Children.JAMA pediatrics · 2026Article
- Residential Mobility, Housing Instability, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and the Moderating Role of Neighborhood Contexts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Interventions to Mitigate the Effects of Housing Insecurity on Child and Adolescent Health: A Scoping Review.Public health reviews · 2025Review
- A Scoping Review to Identify Community- and Societal-Level Strategies Evaluated from 2013 to 2023 for Their Potential Impact on Child Well-Being in the United States.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children's well-being and health.Social science research · 2024Article
- Federal Housing Assistance and Blood Lead Levels in a Nationally Representative US Sample Age 6 and Older: NHANES, 1999-2018.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Policy solutions to eliminate racial and ethnic child health disparities in the USA.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2024Review
- Race, housing policy, and the demographic and spatial structure of modern housing programs: Who receives rental assistance and where do they live?Journal of urban affairs · 2024Article
- Integration and coordination across public benefit programs: Insights from state and local government leaders in the United States.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998-2017.Demography · 2022Article
- Association Between Rental Assistance Programs and Hemoglobin A1c Levels Among US Adults.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Does Public Housing Increase the Risk of Child Health Problems? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data.Housing policy debate · 2022Article
- Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Impact of a Housing and Health Focused Residency Curriculum on Community Health Worker Utilization for Unmet Housing Needs.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
Programs that provide affordable and stable housing may contribute to better child health and thus to fewer missed days of school. Drawing on a unique linkage of survey and administrative data, we use a quasi-experimental approach to examine the impact of rental assistance programs on missed days of school due to illness. We compare missed school days due to illness among children receiving rental assistance with those who will enter assistance within two years of their interview, the average length of waitlists for federal rental assistance. Overall, we find that children who receive rental assistance miss fewer days of school due to illness relative to those in the pseudo-waitlist group. We demonstrate that rental assistance leads to a reduction in the number of health problems among children and thus to fewer days of school missed due to illness. We find that the effect of rental assistance on missed school days is stronger for adolescents than for younger children. Additionally, race-stratified analyses reveal that rental assistance leads to fewer missed days due to illness among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latino children; this effect, however, is not evident for non-Hispanic Black children, the largest racial/ethnic group receiving assistance. These findings suggest that underinvestment in affordable housing may impede socioeconomic mobility among disadvantaged non-Hispanic White and Hispanic/Latino children. In contrast, increases in rental assistance may widen racial/ethnic disparities in health among disadvantaged children, and future research should examine why this benefit is not evident for Black children.
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