experiment was a unique, large-scale experiment that offered families vouchers to move to better neighborhoods via randomized … lottery. Families received one of two types of housing vouchers: the first (Experimental) required families to move to very … delinquency and debt behaviors, particularly among those who received unrestricted Section 8 vouchers. We also find evidence that …

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents …

Researchers and policy-makers have explored the possibility of restricting the use of housing vouchers to neighborhoods … estimate preferences over neighborhoods of likely recipients of housing vouchers in Los Angeles. We combine simulations of the … children. Simulations suggest a policy that restricts housing vouchers to the top 20% of neighborhoods maximizes expected …

housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long … findings imply that offering vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods to families with young children who are living in …

exercise, we study the long-run and large-scale impacts of vouchers and place-based subsidies. Both policies result in welfare …