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Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Katz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in high-poverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the Moving to Opportunity program. Four to seven years after random assignment, families offered vouchers lived in...

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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

Katz, Lawrence F.; Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment, which offered some public-housing families but not others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods. We show that 10-15 years...

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Is Crime Contagious?

Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

local-area crime rates decrease arrest rates among individuals. Our analysis exploits the fact that the effect of treatment …-site interactions to instrument for measures of neighborhood crime rates, poverty and racial segregation in our analysis of individual …

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Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment

Katz, Lawrence F.; Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Liebman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

were less likely to be personally victimized by crime, to be injured, or to experience an asthma attack. …

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Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Katz, Lawrence F.; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate to lower-poverty areas reduces arrests among female youth for … violent and property crimes, relative to a control group. For males the offer to relocate reduces arrests for violent crime …, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment …

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Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Duncan, Greg J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects...

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