TY  - JOUR
AU  - Sanbonmatsu,Lisa
AU  - Kling,Jeffrey R.
AU  - Duncan,Greg J.
AU  - Brooks-Gunn,Jeanne
TI  - Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11909
PY  - 2006
Y2  - January 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11909
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11909.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Lisa Sanbonmatsu
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/613-1201
E-Mail: lsanbonm@nber.org

Jeffrey R. Kling
Congressional Budget Office
3403 Ordway St NW
Washington, DC 20016
E-Mail: jeffrey.r.kling@gmail.com

Greg Duncan
Greg J. Duncan

University of California, Irvine

School of Education

2056 Education Building, Mail Code 5500

Irvine, CA 92697

(949) 824-7831 (office)

E-Mail: gduncan@uci.edu

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Columbia University
National Center for Children and Families
525 West 120th Street, Box 39
New York, NY 10027
E-Mail: brooks-gunn@columbia.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-09-01
AB  - Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on test scores for any age group among over 5000 children ages 6 to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after randomization. Program impacts on school environments were considerably smaller than impacts on neighborhoods, suggesting that achievement-related benefits from improved neighborhood environments are alone small.
ER  -