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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hous Policy Debate. 2016 Nov 24;27(3):419–448. doi: 10.1080/10511482.2016.1245210

Table 3. Census tract characteristics of the 1997 locations of MTO adults (n=4240).

Treatment minus control differences

Low poverty (Exp) group Section 8 group Exp vs. Sec 8 Site hetero-geneitya Adherence-adjusted site hetero-geneityb

Mean (SE) Mean (SE) P-value P-value P-value

2000 Census data
Economic disadvantage Percent persons in poverty -0.74 (0.03) -0.55 (0.03) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Percent of households receiving public assistance income -0.55 (0.03) -0.45 (0.03) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Percent female-headed families with own children 0-17 years -0.52 (0.03) -0.43 (0.04) 0.01 <0.001 <0.001
Percent persons 25+ with less than high school degree -0.67 (0.03) -0.39 (0.03) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Unemployment (16+ civilian labor force) -0.51 (0.03) -0.42 (0.03) 0.003 <0.001 <0.001
Percent vacant housing units -0.26 (0.03) -0.28 (0.04) 0.39 <0.001 <0.001
Affluence Percent of people (25+) with college degrees 0.47 (0.03) 0.21 (0.04) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Percent 16-19-year-olds in school 0.19 (0.04) 0.14 (0.04) 0.14 <0.001 <0.001
Percent of population minority males 16 + civilian employed 0.34 (0.04) 0.43 (0.04) 0.02 <0.001 <0.001
Median family income 0.76 (0.03) 0.44 (0.03) <0.001 <0.001 0.001
Median house value 0.20 (0.04) 0.20 (0.04) 0.97 <0.001 <0.001
Percent owner-occupied housing units 0.68 (0.03) 0.42 (0.03) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Total number of businesses 0.09 (0.05) 0.05 (0.05) 0.39 <0.001 <0.001
Composition Percent of population 5+ living in same house since 1995 0.04 (0.03) -0.09 (0.04) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Census tract participation rate 0.27 (0.04) 0.17 (0.03) 0.005 <0.001 <0.001
Percent black, non-Hispanic -0.06 (0.03) -0.05 (0.03) 0.80 <0.001 <0.001
Percent Hispanic -0.26 (0.02) -0.06 (0.02) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Percent foreign-born 0.08 (0.02) 0.11 (0.02) 0.34 <0.001 <0.001
Percent minority males 10-19 years -0.39 (0.04) -0.21 (0.04) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Ratio of minority males to white, non-Hispanic males aged 10-19 years -0.14 (0.04) -0.03 (0.04) <0.001 0.0043 0.005
Percent minority adults 25+ -0.09 (0.04) 0.11 (0.04) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Ratio of adult minority males 25+ years to minority youth 10-19 years 0.15 (0.04) 0.10 (0.04) 0.23 0.03 0.05

All neighborhood and housing characteristics were standardized with a mean of zero and standard deviation of 1

p<.001 Statistically different from controls Linear regression model controls for age, sex, race/ethnicity, parental education, family structure, parent's marital status, parent's employment status, parent's receipt of AFDC/TANF, parent's teen parent status, no teens in household, sibling combination, household size, presence of family health vulnerability/disability, family disability, and family experience of victimization. Test of treatment group differences calculated from F-tests

a

Treatment*site interactions jointly equal 0

b

Adherence-adjusted analyses implemented via two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression. Treatment*site interactions jointly equal 0