Assessing the evidence on neighborhood effects from Moving to Opportunity

Dionissi Aliprantis

No 1122R, Working Papers (Old Series) from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: This paper investigates the assumptions under which various parameters can be identified by the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. Joint models of potential outcomes and selection into treatment are used to clarify the current interpretation of empirical evidence, distinguishing program effects from neighborhood effects. It is shown that MTO only identifi es a restricted subset of the neighborhood effects of interest, with empirical evidence presented that MTO does not identify effects from moving to high quality neighborhoods. One implication is that programs designed around measures other than poverty might have larger effects than MTO.

Keywords: Housing policy; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2012
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ecm, nep-geo and nep-ure
Note: This paper has been substantially revised. For the new version see WP no. 1233.
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/p ... borhood-effects.aspx Full text (text/html)
https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-201122r Persistent Link (text/html)
https://www.clevelandfed.org/-/media/project/cleve ... -opportunity-pdf.pdf Full Text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Assessing the evidence on neighborhood effects from Moving to Opportunity (2017)
Working Paper: Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity (2015)
Working Paper: Assessing the evidence on neighborhood effects from moving to opportunity (2014)
Working Paper: Assessing the evidence on neighborhood effects from moving to opportunity (2011)
Working Paper: Assessing the evidence on neighborhood effects from moving to opportunity (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:fedcwp:1122:x:1

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers (Old Series) from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by 4D Library ().