“When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless”: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Housing Search Confidence to Increase Opportunity Moves for Voucher Holders

Stefanie DeLuca; Lawrence F. Katz; Sarah C. Oppenheimer

doi:10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.08

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vol. 9 no. 5 179-211

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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

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2377-8261

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Published online August 3, 2023.

© 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. DeLuca, Stefanie, Lawrence F. Katz, and Sarah C. Oppenheimer. 2023. “’When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless’: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Housing Search Confidence to Increase Opportunity Moves for Voucher Holders.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(5): 179–211. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.08. We are grateful to our partners who implemented the experiment analyzed in this paper and supported the research team analysis: the Seattle and King County Housing Authorities, especially Patrice Davis, Truc Ho, Andria Lazaga, Jenny Le, Annie Penucci, Anita Rocha, and Jodell Speer. We thank our whole fieldwork team, who helped collect the CMTO Phase 1 interviews, including Paige Ackman, Christina Ambrosino, William Atienza, Divya Baron, Joseph Boselovic, Erin Carll, Devin Collins, Hannah Curtis, Christine Jang-Trettien, Akanksha Jayanthi, Nicole Kovski, Melanie Nadon, Kiara Nerenberg, Daphne Moraga, Bronte Nevins, Elise Omaki, Simone Robbennolt, Brianna So, Jasmine Sausedo, Jane Scinta, Molly Silvestrini, Sydney Thomas, Maria Vignau-Loria, Allison Young, and MEF Associates, especially Addie Currin, Jordan Engel, Kimberly Foley, Angela Gaffney, Asaph Glosser, and Kate Stepleton. For additional analyses, we thank Hopkins PIRL research assistants Thelonious Goerz, Claire Smith, Margaret Tydings, Lidie Atoaguz, and Hannah Lee as well as Vinay Ravinder at Opportunity Insights. We also thank Raj Chetty, Kendall Dorland, Pamela Herd, Hilary Hoynes, Jamila Michener, Donald Moynihan and the participants of the “Administrative Burdens” conference for additional comments and suggestions. This research was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Overdeck Foundation, Surgo Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and Harvard University. This project and a pre-analysis plan were preregistered with the AEA RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0002807). This study was approved under Harvard Institutional Review Board IRB18-1573, MDRC IRB 1030056-4, and Johns Hopkins University HIRB 00001010. Direct correspondence to: Stefanie DeLuca, at sdeluca@jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States; Lawrence F. Katz, at lkatz@harvard.edu, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States; Sarah C. Oppenheimer, at soppenhe@fas.harvard.edu, Opportunity Insights, Harvard University, 1280 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Stefanie DeLuca^a,
Lawrence F. Katz^b and
Sarah C. Oppenheimer^c

^aJames Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, United States
^bElisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, United States
^cExecutive director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University, United States

Correspondence authors:
Stefanie DeLuca, (sdeluca{at}jhu.edu), Lawrence F. Katz, (lkatz{at}harvard.edu), Sarah C. Oppenheimer, (soppenhe{at}fas.harvard.edu)

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