Sent Away: Displacement, Neighborhoods, and Children’s Outcomes under Slum Clearance Policies

A previous version of this paper circulated as Rojas-Ampuero’s job market paper titled “Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children and Families.” We are grateful to the co-editors, John Friedman and Rema Hanna, and to three anonymous referees for their detailed comments, which significantly improved the paper. We thank Dora Costa, Michela Giorcelli, and Adriana Lleras-Muney for their continual support and guidance throughout this research project. We also thank Martha Bailey, Natalie Bau, Simon Board, Gilles Duranton, Jesse Gregory, Matthew Khan, Juliana Londoño-Vélez, Rodrigo Pinto, Laura Schechter, Jeffrey Smith, Raimundo Undurraga, Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere, Maisy Wong, and participants in various seminars for helpful comments. We thank Ethan Duong, Sebastian Figari, Lucas García, Maeve Giza, Katherine Jones, Alissa Lioznova, Alejandra Martínez, Francisco Norambuena, Vicente Rojas Ampuero, and Yuting Zhou for their help with the data work, digitization process, and statistical analysis. We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Genealog Chile and Coderhub in the construction of the dataset used in this project. We thank Chile’s Superintendence of Social Security for granting access to its administrative data. We also thank Felipe Gonz ́alez and Nicolás Figueroa for sponsoring us with Chile’s Ministry of Social Development. This research uses information from the Registry of Social Information (RIS). We thank the Undersecretary of Social Evaluation, owner of the RIS, for the authorization to use the databases under the provisions of Exempt Resolution No. 412, of 2019. All the results of this study are our sole responsibility and interpretation, and do not commit said Undersecretary in any way. Rojas-Ampuero benefited from facilities and resources provided by the California Center for Population Research at UCLA (CCPR), which receives core support (P2C-HD041022, NICHD). Finally, the authors thank the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate’s Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Program in Real Estate, Finance and Urban Economics, the 2019 LAI-Tinker Field Research Grant, and the Treiman Fellowship, CCPR at UCLA, for generous funding. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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