David C Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Do Homelessness Prevention Programs Prevent Homelessness? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
This paper provides the first evidence from a randomized controlled trial isolating the impact of financial assistance to prevent homelessness. In this study, individuals and families at imminent risk of homelessness were offered temporary financial assistance, averaging nearly $2,000 for those assigned to treatment. Our results show that this assistance significantly reduces homelessness by 3.8 percentage points from a base rate of 4.1%. The eff…
Reducing the burden of mental illness on the criminal justice system: Evidence from light-touch outreach
Personalizing homelessness prevention: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Through a randomized controlled trial, we test whether providing personalized case management alongside emergency financial assistance more effectively prevents homelessness than financial assistance alone. For a sample of young adults and families with children who are at risk of homelessness, our results indicate that participants assigned to case management and financial assistance are more likely to access other homeless programs and no less …
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior
Means-tested reduced transit fare programs are increasingly prevalent. This paper describes the results of a unique experiment in which a randomly selected group of low-income individuals in King County, Washington received up to six months of free public transportation. We leverage the experiment to explore how public transit's cost affects mobility. Using administrative data tracking transit card taps on King County's fleet of vehicles, we find…
Understanding socioeconomic disparities in travel behavior during the Covid‐19 pandemic
We document the magnitudes of and mechanisms behind socioeconomic differences in travel behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We focus on King County, Washington, one of the first places in North America where COVID‐19 was detected. We leverage novel and rich administrative and survey data on travel volumes, modes, and preferences for different demographic groups. Large average declines in travel and public transit use due to the pandemic and re…
Policies to Reduce and Prevent Homelessness: What We Know and Gaps in the Research
Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels and private organizations have a variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this paper, we catalog the policy responses and the existing literature on the effectiveness of these strategies, focusing on studies of individual‐level effects from randomized contro…
Measuring Housing Stability With Consumer Reference Data
Housing instability for low-income renters has drawn greater attention recently, but measurement has limited research on policies to stabilize housing. Address histories from consumer reference data can be used to increase the quantity and quality of research on low-income renters. Consumer data track housing moves throughout the entire United States for most of the adult population. In this article, I show that such data can measure housing stab…
Do Comparisons of Fictional Applicants Measure Discrimination When Search Externalities are Present? Evidence from Existing Experiments
Researchers commonly measure discrimination by comparing responses to multiple fictional applicants sent to the same vacancy. I find evidence that these applications interact. Using data from several existing experiments, I find that applicants randomly assigned to compete against higher quality applicant pools receive more callbacks. In the presence of such spillovers, many experiments confound discrimination against an individual's characterist…
Wages and health worker retention: Evidence from public sector wage reforms in Ghana
Briefly noted
ORAL READING. By Lionel Crocker and Louis M. Eich. (Second edition). New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1955; pp. v+492. $5.75. THE ROMAN MIND: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT FROM CICERO TO MARCUS AURELIUS. By Martin L. Clarke. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956; pp. vii+168. $3.75. THE PHILOSOPHY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS FROM HIS PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS. Edited by Harvey G. Townsend. Eugene, Oregon: The University Press, 1955; pp. xii+…
Oral Communication in Business
Policies to Reduce and Prevent Homelessness: What We Know and Gaps in the Research
Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels and private organizations have a variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this paper, we catalog the policy responses and the existing literature on the effectiveness of these strategies, focusing on studies of individual‐level effects from randomized contro…
Do Comparisons of Fictional Applicants Measure Discrimination When Search Externalities are Present? Evidence from Existing Experiments
Researchers commonly measure discrimination by comparing responses to multiple fictional applicants sent to the same vacancy. I find evidence that these applications interact. Using data from several existing experiments, I find that applicants randomly assigned to compete against higher quality applicant pools receive more callbacks. In the presence of such spillovers, many experiments confound discrimination against an individual's characterist…
Measuring Housing Stability With Consumer Reference Data
Housing instability for low-income renters has drawn greater attention recently, but measurement has limited research on policies to stabilize housing. Address histories from consumer reference data can be used to increase the quantity and quality of research on low-income renters. Consumer data track housing moves throughout the entire United States for most of the adult population. In this article, I show that such data can measure housing stab…
Briefly noted
ORAL READING. By Lionel Crocker and Louis M. Eich. (Second edition). New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1955; pp. v+492. $5.75. THE ROMAN MIND: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT FROM CICERO TO MARCUS AURELIUS. By Martin L. Clarke. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956; pp. vii+168. $3.75. THE PHILOSOPHY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS FROM HIS PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS. Edited by Harvey G. Townsend. Eugene, Oregon: The University Press, 1955; pp. xii+…
Oral Communication in Business
Wages and health worker retention: Evidence from public sector wage reforms in Ghana
Do Comparisons of Fictional Applicants Measure Discrimination When Search Externalities are Present? Evidence from Existing Experiments
Researchers commonly measure discrimination by comparing responses to multiple fictional applicants sent to the same vacancy. I find evidence that these applications interact. Using data from several existing experiments, I find that applicants randomly assigned to compete against higher quality applicant pools receive more callbacks. In the presence of such spillovers, many experiments confound discrimination against an individual's characterist…
Measuring Housing Stability With Consumer Reference Data
Housing instability for low-income renters has drawn greater attention recently, but measurement has limited research on policies to stabilize housing. Address histories from consumer reference data can be used to increase the quantity and quality of research on low-income renters. Consumer data track housing moves throughout the entire United States for most of the adult population. In this article, I show that such data can measure housing stab…
Understanding socioeconomic disparities in travel behavior during the Covid‐19 pandemic
We document the magnitudes of and mechanisms behind socioeconomic differences in travel behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We focus on King County, Washington, one of the first places in North America where COVID‐19 was detected. We leverage novel and rich administrative and survey data on travel volumes, modes, and preferences for different demographic groups. Large average declines in travel and public transit use due to the pandemic and re…
Policies to Reduce and Prevent Homelessness: What We Know and Gaps in the Research
Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels and private organizations have a variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this paper, we catalog the policy responses and the existing literature on the effectiveness of these strategies, focusing on studies of individual‐level effects from randomized contro…
Experimental evidence on the effects of means-tested public transportation subsidies on travel behavior
Means-tested reduced transit fare programs are increasingly prevalent. This paper describes the results of a unique experiment in which a randomly selected group of low-income individuals in King County, Washington received up to six months of free public transportation. We leverage the experiment to explore how public transit's cost affects mobility. Using administrative data tracking transit card taps on King County's fleet of vehicles, we find…
Personalizing homelessness prevention: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Through a randomized controlled trial, we test whether providing personalized case management alongside emergency financial assistance more effectively prevents homelessness than financial assistance alone. For a sample of young adults and families with children who are at risk of homelessness, our results indicate that participants assigned to case management and financial assistance are more likely to access other homeless programs and no less …
Do Homelessness Prevention Programs Prevent Homelessness? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
This paper provides the first evidence from a randomized controlled trial isolating the impact of financial assistance to prevent homelessness. In this study, individuals and families at imminent risk of homelessness were offered temporary financial assistance, averaging nearly $2,000 for those assigned to treatment. Our results show that this assistance significantly reduces homelessness by 3.8 percentage points from a base rate of 4.1%. The eff…
Reducing the burden of mental illness on the criminal justice system: Evidence from light-touch outreach
Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)