| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| On the relationship between climate and homelessness | |
| David S. Lucas; Kevin C. Corinth | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-03-29 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Editor’s note: This paper has been updated from the original version posted in July 2017. Abstract It has long been understood that unsheltered homelessness is on average more common in communities with warmer climates. In this paper, we use quantile regression techniques to estimate the effect of temperature on the distribution of unsheltered homelessness rates across the United States. Controlling for community characteristics, we find that cold places uniformly have low rates of unsheltered homelessness, while warm places display wide variation. For example, among communities with an average January temperature of 20 degrees, the predicted 10th and 90th percentile unsheltered homelessness rates per 10,000 people are 0.2 and 5.9 respectively. When the temperature is 60 degrees, these rates are 2.6 and 51.4. This variation in warm places is not explained by differences in shelter use or supportive housing inventories. We also use panel data on homeless counts to bound the extent to which non-persistent measurement error drives this result, finding that within-community variation in homeless counts over time can account for 34 percent of cross-sectional variation in unsheltered rates in warm places. We discuss alternative explanations including unobserved community characteristics and agglomeration. Read the full PDF here. |
| 主题 | Economics |
| 标签 | Climate change ; homelessness |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/on-the-relationship-between-climate-and-homelessness/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/207356 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David S. Lucas,Kevin C. Corinth. On the relationship between climate and homelessness. 2017. |
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