TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kling,Jeffrey R.
AU  - Liebman,Jeffrey B.
AU  - Katz,Lawrence F.
TI  - Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11577
PY  - 2005
Y2  - August 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11577
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11577.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

Jeffrey B. Liebman
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-8518
Fax: 617/496-9053
E-Mail: jeffrey_liebman@harvard.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
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-10-01
AB  - 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.
ER  -