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The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the moving to opportunity experiment

The American economic review, 2016-04, Vol.106 (4), p.855-902 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright© 2016 American Economic Association ;Copyright American Economic Association Apr 2016 ;ISSN: 0002-8282 ;EISSN: 1944-7981 ;DOI: 10.1257/aer.20150572 ;PMID: 29546974 ;CODEN: AENRAA

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Title:
The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the moving to opportunity experiment
Author: Chetty, Raj ; Hendren, Nathaniel ; Katz, Lawrence F
Subjects: Adults ; Affordable housing ; Age ; Bildungsverhalten ; Censuses ; Economics ; Effects ; Expenditures ; Experiments ; Families & family life ; Health technology assessment ; Housing ; Housing subsidies ; Kind ; Neighborhoods ; Poverty ; Relocation ; Sozialpolitik ; Statistical analysis ; USA ; Vouchers ; Wohnung
Is Part Of: The American economic review, 2016-04, Vol.106 (4), p.855-902
Description: The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families housing vouchers to move from high-poverty housing projects to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We analyze MTO's impacts on children's long-term outcomes using tax data. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood when young (before age 13) increases college attendance and earnings and reduces single parenthood rates. Moving as an adolescent has slightly negative impacts, perhaps because of disruption effects. The decline in the gains from moving with the age when children move suggests that the duration of exposure to better environments during childhood is an important determinant of children's long-term outcomes.
Publisher: United States: American Economic Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0002-8282
EISSN: 1944-7981
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20150572
PMID: 29546974
CODEN: AENRAA
Source: ProQuest Central

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The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the moving to opportunity experiment

Copyright© 2016 American Economic Association ;Copyright American Economic Association Apr 2016 ;ISSN: 0002-8282 ;EISSN: 1944-7981 ;DOI: 10.1257/aer.20150572 ;PMID: 29546974 ;CODEN: AENRAA

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