Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

Jeffrey Kling, Jeffrey Liebman () and Lawrence Katz

No 11577, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in high-poverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the Moving to Opportunity program. Four to seven years after random assignment, families offered vouchers lived in safer neighborhoods that had lower poverty rates than those of the control group not offered vouchers. We find no significant overall effects of this intervention on adult economic self-sufficiency or physical health. Mental health benefits of the voucher offers for adults and for female youth were substantial. Beneficial effects for female youth on education, risky behavior, and physical health were offset by adverse effects for male youth. For outcomes exhibiting significant treatment effects, we find, using variation in treatment intensity across voucher types and cities, that the relationship between neighborhood poverty rate and outcomes is approximately linear.

JEL-codes: H43 I18 I38 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-08
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Published as Revised and published in Econometrica, 75:1 (January 2007), 83-119

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