School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood …. While Boston's school choice plan gives priority to neighborhood applicants for half of each school's seats, the intended … neighborhood priority, the outcome of Boston's implementation of a 50-50 school split is nearly identical to a system without …

the neighborhood, ignoring spillovers may over- or under-predict overall ITN use resulting from a specific targeting rule … ITN use rises with neighborhood subsidy-rates, (ii) under means-testing, predicted ITN use is a convex increasing function …

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO …

unobservables, applying this strategy to the estimation of neighborhood effects on labor market outcomes. The first part of this … neighborhood housing prices and neighborhood quality. This implies that under certain conditions a non-parametric function of … neighborhood housing prices serves as a suitable control function for the neighborhood unobservable in the labor market outcome …