Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self‐Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

2008 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Clampet‐Lundquist ◽  
Douglas S. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Moving To Opportunity ◽  
Self Sufficiency

scholarly journals Neighborhood Poverty and Quality in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dionissi Aliprantis ◽  
Daniel Kolliner
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Neighborhood Characteristics ◽  
Inequality Of Opportunity ◽  
Neighborhood Quality ◽  
Neighborhood Poverty ◽  
Moving To Opportunity ◽  
Black Neighborhood ◽  
Opportunity Program ◽  
Neighborhood Environments

Researchers suspect that some of the disparities that exist in such outcomes as health, employment, and education might be attributable to inequality of opportunity as determined by neighborhood environments. We study census data to identify neighborhood characteristics in addition to poverty that might help to explain these disparities. We focus on the Moving to Opportunity housing-relocation experiment and show that because program participants typically moved from one predominately black neighborhood to another, their new low-poverty neighborhoods may have provided little to no change in neighborhood quality. These circumstances are helpful in understanding how results from the Moving to Opportunity program should inform views of neighborhood effects.

Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: Lates of Neighborhood Quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dionissi Aliprantis ◽  
Francisca G.-C. Richter
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Neighborhood Quality ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Moving To Opportunity ◽  
Unobserved Component ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Local Average Treatment Effects ◽  
Neighborhood Choice

This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying transition-specific effects that exploits 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 pertain to a subpopulation of nine percent of program participants.

scholarly journals Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Ludwig ◽  
Greg J Duncan ◽  
Lisa A Gennetian ◽  
Lawrence F Katz ◽  
Ronald C Kessler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Detectable Effect ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Youth Outcomes ◽  
Moving To Opportunity ◽  
Low Income Families

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment. This experiment offered to some public-housing families but not to others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods. We show that ten to 15 years after baseline, MTO: (i) improves adult physical and mental health; (ii) has no detectable effect on economic outcomes or youth schooling or physical health; and (iii) has mixed results by gender on other youth outcomes, with girls doing better on some measures and boys doing worse. Despite the somewhat mixed pattern of impacts on traditional behavioral outcomes, MTO moves substantially improve adult subjective well-being.

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