Moving to Opportunity: The Demonstration's Design and its Effects on Mobility
Poverty concentration in urban neighbourhoods may have detrimental long-term effects on residents. The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment in the US randomly assigned high-poverty public housing residents to a programme that subsidised occupancy in non-poor areas, permitting controlled analysis of neighbourhood impacts. In this paper, MTO data are used to answer the following questions. How much impact can a one-time intervention have on the subsequent residential experience of poor families from high-poverty neighbourhoods? It is found that the impacts on subsequent residential experience are statistically and practically significant. Are poor families who move to non-poor neighbourhoods significantly different from poor families who do not, in (usually) unmeasured characteristics? It is found that yes, they are. What difference does moving to a better neighbourhood make? There are large gains in safety, other improvements in neighbourhood quality and no loss in social ties.
Year of publication: |
2005
|
---|---|
Authors: | Feins, Judith D. ; Shroder, Mark D. |
Published in: |
Urban Studies. - Urban Studies Journal Limited. - Vol. 42.2005, 8, p. 1275-1299
|
Publisher: |
Urban Studies Journal Limited |
Saved in:
Online Resource
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Housing Subsidies and Work Incentives
Shroder, Mark D., (2010)
-
A Worm's Eye View of the Bubble
Shroder, Mark D., (2008)
-
Shroder, Mark D., (2008)
- More ...