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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?

Ludwig, Jens; Kling, Jeffrey R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829820

The Benefits and Costs of Head Start

Ludwig, Jens; Phillips, Deborah A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

, benefit-cost analysis), draw on new accumulating evidence for Head Start's long-term effects on early cohorts of program …

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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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Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery

Jacob, Brian; Kapustin, Max; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Whether government transfer programs increase the human capital of low-income children is a question of first-order policy importance. Such policies might help poor children if their parents are credit constrained, and so under-invest in their human capital. But it is also possible that whatever...

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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Miller, Douglas Lee; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program%u2019s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties in the U.S. to develop Head Start funding proposals. The...

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Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?

Miller, Douglas Lee; Gibbs, Chloe; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Head Start is a federal early childhood intervention designed to reduce disparities in preschool outcomes. The first randomized experimental study of Head Start, the National Head Start Impact Study (NHSIS), found impacts on academic outcomes of .15 to .3 standard deviations measured at the end...

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The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

Jacob, Brian A.; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study estimates the effects of means-tested housing programs on labor supply using data from a randomized housing voucher wait-list lottery in Chicago. Evidence for the net effects of housing programs on labor supply is central to a wide range of policy decisions about how to provide...

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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Ludwig, Jens; Miller, Douglas L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703053