Home Ownership and School Outcomes of Children: Evidence from the PSID Child Development Supplement

Mohanty, Lisa; Raut, Lakshmi K.

doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2009.00635.x

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“…Economists looking from the viewpoint of public housing policy also take an interest in this subject. Mohanty and Raut (2009) for example analyse the effect of homeownership on students' performance and find that, contrary to the findings by Lien etal. (2008), there is no significant influence of homeownership, compared to other more important factors such as neighbourhood environments.…”

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The impact of housing environment attributes on children's academic performance at school: an empirical study of Hong Kong

2012

Housing, Care and Support

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Purpose -This paper aims to examine the intluence ot physical housing environments on the learning potential of children. The authors argue for housing design which is attentive to the need tor open but personal space with "sufficient physical partitions".Design/methodology/approach -The research draws on an empirical study of students in two randomly selected Hong Kong secondary schools. The approach includes the use ot multiple regression analysis to test the correlation between academic pertormance and a set ot environmental attributes.Findings -Housing design, aspect and size ot housing are significant. Academic performance is not dependent on tenure type and this is partly related to mixed tenure, close proximity ot differing socio-economic neighborhoods and the sharing of social capital to provide equal opportunity. However, densely developed high housing is not desirable tor children's academic development Research limitations/implications -The location of Hong Kong provides a very specific combination of small land mass, a history of high rise living and a social housing sector and the need to optimize physical space tor social ends. Home ownership does not play a role of a stabilizer for children, as observed in other places.Practical implications -This paper prompts a reassessment, by housing providers and commissioners, of the link between housing types and long term educational opportunities and the need to devise appropriate partnerships to ensure that housing adds to academic performance rather than undermine it.Sociai impiications -The study ot the effects of high rise high density housing on children's learning is underdeveloped and should be reassessed in markets, such as that in the UK, where use of the private rented sector is increasingly used to house families who may in the past have been housed directly by the State.OriginaiityAraiue -This research attempts to apply quantitative techniques to provide evidence to policy makers that can be replicated in other housing contexts.

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The impact of housing environment attributes on children's academic performance at school: an empirical study of Hong Kong

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“…We cannot measure them in our dataset. 5 See the studies by Cunha et al (2010) and , as well as Mohanty and Raut (2009) and Boca et al (2013). section, we sequentially define the components of the vector of his unobservable characteristics ε.…”

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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

Heckman

Raut

2009

SSRN Journal

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This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and noncognitive skills, which enhance earnings and school outcomes. It also finds that a standard Mincer earnings function, by omitting measures of non-cognitive skills on the right-hand side, overestimates the rate of return to schooling. From the estimated equilibrium Markov process, the paper studies the nature of within generation earnings distribution, intergenerational earnings mobility, and schooling mobility. The paper finds that a tax-financed free preschool program for the children of poor socioeconomic status generates positive net gains to the society in terms of average earnings, higher intergenerational earnings mobility, and schooling mobility.

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“…Coming to a similar conclusion, Mohanty and Raut (2009) find that homeownership doesn’t have an independent effect, but rather works through other factors such as home environment and neighborhood quality. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between homeownership and parenting outcomes.…”

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Homeownership and parenting practices: Evidence from the community advantage panel

Grinstein‐Weiss

Shanks

Manturuk

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Children and Youth Services Review

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This study examines whether there is a significant relationship between homeownership and engaged parenting practices among low- and moderate-income households. Using analytic methods which account for selection effects and clustering, we test whether homeownership can act as a protective factor against parental disengagement from children. Controlling for individual characteristics, analyses demonstrate that homeowners are more likely than renters to demonstrate engaged parenting behaviors such as organizing structured activities for their children. While renters are more likely to read to their children, the children of homeowners spend less time watching television and playing video games. Implications for low-income housing policy are discussed in light of these findings.

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Home Ownership and School Outcomes of Children: Evidence from the PSID Child Development Supplement

Cited by 50 publications

References 18 publications

The impact of housing environment attributes on children's academic performance at school: an empirical study of Hong Kong

The impact of housing environment attributes on children's academic performance at school: an empirical study of Hong Kong

Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

Homeownership and parenting practices: Evidence from the community advantage panel

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