The interpretation of estimates from Moving to Opportunity (MTO) as neighborhood effects has created significant … housing mobility experiment. The paper defines several neighborhood treatments and estimates their Local Average Treatment … learn about neighborhood effects from MTO. The LATE parameters estimated in this paper are neighborhood effects for the …

and Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) parameters as neighborhood effects. This distinction helps to clarify that … results from MTO are only informative about a small subset of neighborhood effects of interest. Tests for instrument strength … show that MTO induced large changes in neighborhood poverty rates. However, it is also shown that MTO induced remarkably …

This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing … identification of the unobserved component of a neighborhood choice model. Estimated Local Average Treatment Effects (LATEs) are … large, result from moves between the first and second deciles of the national distribution of neighborhood quality, and …

households? We find that neighborhood sorting by income and race cannot be explained by financial constraints: High-income, high … of neighborhoods. Black households sorting into black neighborhoods can explain the racial gap in neighborhood quality at … all income levels. The supply of high-quality black neighborhoods drives the neighborhood quality of black households …

, employment, and test scores. However, after studying the assumptions identifying neighborhood effects with MTO data, this paper … absence of effects from the MTO program implies an absence of neighborhood effects. I present theory and evidence against two … key assumptions of this model: That poverty is the only determinant of neighborhood quality, and that outcomes only change …