This study investigates a long-term effect of growing up in public housing on economic self sufficiency and asset ownership of offspring among low-income families. With the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data matched with the state level public housing information, the author employs propensity score matching estimations to address selection problems that are often encountered when evaluating the impact of welfare program. The findings indicate some evidence for a long term negative effect of project residence on housing self sufficiency and car ownership of offspring as young adults but no effect on the receipt of AFDC or food stamps, employment status or homeownership.
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