Program Proposal: Housing Voucher Insurance

This paper was developed during my time in the Masters of Behavioral and Decision Science at the University of Pennsylvania. It designs an experiment to test the effect of “housing voucher insurance” on employment rates. Section 8/Mainstream Housing Vouchers are frequently noted to discourage employment, as households earning over a certain amount not only lose the dollar value of subsidies, but the safety and security these subsidies provide.

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