Claims: Sent Away: Displacement, Neighborhoods, and Children’s Outcomes under Slum Clearance Policies -- by Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, Felipe Carrera
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- title: Sent Away: Displacement, Neighborhoods, and Children’s Outcomes under Slum Clearance Policies -- by Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, Felipe Carrera Source
- url: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35318#fromrss Source
- summary: We examine the difference between two policies that target urban slums, relocation versus redevelopment on-site, on children’s future outcomes. We use evidence from a slum clearance program in Chile between 1979 and 1984, where two-thirds of slum-dwelling families were relocated to housing projects on the city’s periphery, and one-third received housing through on-site redevelopment at their original locations. We find that 40 years post-policy, displaced children receive 0.62 fewer years of sch… Source
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