Surratt Eviction Risk Paper SDA

Author

Brian Surratt

Published

September 19, 2023

• What is the research topic?

Perceived Risk of Eviction

• What is the research question?

• Why is it important to answer this research question? Said another way, what gap in the scientific literature will this research address?

• What is your specific hypothesis or hypotheses?

• Specify the dependent and independent variables.

evict: Risk of eviction in next two months. 0 is caught up on rent, 1 is not likely at all, 2 is not very likely, 3 is somewhat likeley, 4 is very likely. NAs removed.
evict0, evict1, evict2, evict3, evict4 - dichotomized eviction risk

score: State score on the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard. Value is on a scale from 0 to 5, with the highest score being 4.63.

• Describe the expected relationship between each of the dependent and independent variables.

• Discuss the mechanisms through which the independent variables affect the dependent variables.

• What is your methodology? If you are analyzing existing data, what data set are you using?

Household Pulse Survey Phases 3.2 to 3.4 (weeks 34 to 45) from July 21, 2021 – May 9, 2022 (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey.html)
COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard (https://evictionlab.org/covid-policy-scorecard/)

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