TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kling,Jeffrey R.
AU  - Ludwig,Jens
AU  - Katz,Lawrence F.
TI  - Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10777
PY  - 2004
Y2  - September 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10777
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10777.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeffrey R. Kling
Congressional Budget Office
3403 Ordway St NW
Washington, DC 20016
E-Mail: jeffrey.r.kling@gmail.com

Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago
1155 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/834-0811
Fax: 773/834-1582
E-Mail: jludwig@uchicago.edu

Lawrence F. Katz
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-5148
Fax: 617/613-1245
E-Mail: lkatz@harvard.edu
AB  - The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate to lower-poverty areas reduces arrests among female youth for violent and property crimes, relative to a control group. For males the offer to relocate reduces arrests for violent crime, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment effects seems to reflect differences in how male and female youths from disadvantaged backgrounds adapt and respond to similar new neighborhood environments.
ER  -