Making the Case? Unpacking Family Case Management Effects and School Effects in Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives. EdWorkingPaper No. 25-1172

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Low Income Groups; Neighborhoods; Intervention; Program Effectiveness; Achievement Gains; Mathematics Achievement; Reading Achievement; Attendance; Student Behavior; Punishment; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Neighborhood Improvement; Diversity; Caseworker Approach; Family Needs; Public Housing; Partnerships in Education; Grade 3; Grade 4; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8

Mixed-income initiatives provide critical investments in neighborhoods, including investments to improve schools, and provide case management and family support services to low-income families. The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) is one of the largest and most comprehensive mixed-income neighborhood redevelopment initiatives to date; however, research has yet to examine the CNI's impacts on educational outcomes. We applied an advanced difference-in-difference method to dynamically estimate the effect of attending a CNI partner school and receiving CNI family case management services on student performance in math and reading, as well as attendance and behavior. We found that attending a CNI school significantly decreased punishment, while case management services significantly increased reading performance. However, dynamic modeling revealed that the effects on academics were short-lived, while the effects on punishment were more durable. Moreover, the effects differed across both gender and age, representing substantial heterogeneity.

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