Final Impact Evaluation
- Findings
- Investigators & Advisors
- Funders
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Submission and Clearance
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Official Report: Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program - Final Impacts Evaluation
Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment
Also available is the Supplementary Appendix.
Jens Ludwig, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Lisa Gennetian, Emma Adam, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence Katz, Ronald Kessler, Jeffrey Kling, Stacy Tessler Lindau, Robert Whitaker, and Thomas McDade
New England Journal of Medicine. 365(16): 1509-1519. October 2011.
Helping Poor Families Gain and Sustain Access to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods
Margery Austin Turner, Jennifer Comey, Daniel Kuehn, and Austin Nichols
Urban Institute Research Brief. December 2011.
Principal
Investigator: Lawrence
F. Katz, PhD, National Bureau of Economic
Research and
Project Director:
Jens
Ludwig, PhD,
Director of Survey
Data Collection: Nancy Gebler, MA, Institute for Social Research,
Government Technical Representative & Project Officer: Todd Richardson, HUD, Office of Policy Development & Research
MTO Research Team Investigators
Greg Duncan, PhD, University of California-Irvine, Co-Investigator
Ronald
Kessler, PhD,
Jeffrey Kling, PhD, NBER, Co-Investigator
Lisa Gennetian, PhD, Brookings Institution, Deputy Project Director
Lisa Sanbonmatsu, PhD, NBER, Senior Researcher
Experts working with the MTO Research Team
Emma Adam, PhD, Northwestern University
Stacy
Tessler Lindau, MD,
MAPP,
Thomas McDade, PhD, Northwestern University
John Rickford,
PhD,
Donald Rock, PhD, Educational Testing Service
Robert Whitaker, MD, MPH, Temple University
Technical Review Panel
J. Lawrence
Aber,
Jeanne
Brooks-Gunn,
Charles Brown,
William Congdon, Brookings Institution
Thomas Cook, Northwestern University
Kenneth
Dodge,
Christopher
Jencks,
Terrie Moffitt,
Kathleen Mullan Harris,
Kevin
Edgar
Olsen,
Robert
Sampson,
Eldar Shafir,
Mark
Laurence Steinberg,
Jane Waldfogel,
NBER Research
Analysts & Assistants
Current
Jordan Marvakov, PhD candidate
Nicholas Potter,
MS
Matt Sciandra,
MPP
Fanghua Yang, MA
Sabrina Yusuf, MPP
Past
Joe Amick
Alessandra Del Conte Dickovick
Magali Fassiotto
Ryan Gillette
Ijun Lai
Santhi Hariprasad
Plamen Nikolov
Michael Zabek
FUNDERS
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago
Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Population Research Center at
the National Opinion Research Center
Other Private Foundations
Additional funding in support of Dr. Lindau’s time on the project comes from the National Opinion Research Center and the Center on the Demography and Economics
of Aging at the University of Chicago