Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study (LAFANS): Outcomes Assessed

Outcomes Assessed

Income security

  • Earnings
  • Food stamps receipt
  • Medicaid receipt
  • Welfare receipt
  • Income security - misc.
  • Unemployment Insurance (UI) receipt

Family and relationship outcomes

  • Family formation and stability/Living arrangements
  • Family and relationship outcomes - misc.

Adult outcomes

  • Emotional well-being
  • Health/ physical well-being (including prenatal health)
  • Social functioning/social relationships
  • Planning for future
  • Adult outcomes - misc.

Housing

  • Residential mobility
  • Housing - misc.

Standard of living

  • Standard of living - misc.

Service utilization

  • Service utilization - misc.

Employment

  • Employment - misc.

Education

  • Education - misc.

Community Outcomes

  • Community economic development (e.g. labor market outcomes)
  • Community Outcomes - misc.
  • Community interpersonal relationships (“neighborhood effects”)
  • Community poverty rates
  • Community safety (e.g. crime rates and/or general perceptions of safety)
  • Distribution of community services (equity)
  • Reaction of low-poverty neighborhoods to entry of high-poverty voucher recipients
  • School quality (e.g. SAT scores)

Substance abuse

  • Substance abuse - misc.

Benefit termination

  • Benefit Termination-misc.

Caseload Dynamics

  • Caseload dynamics - misc.

Child Outcomes

  • Child social/emotional/behavioral outcomes
  • Child cognitive (attention, problem solving, memory, language, and vocabulary) outcomes
  • Child academic outcomes
  • Child overall development
  • Child mental/physical health outcomes