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to testimony, short papers, opinion articles, speeches, events, interviews, and
other work from 2005-09 at Brookings are here.
Papers on public housing and high-poverty neighborhoods
Bullets Don't Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto.
Subsequently revised and published in Discovering Successful Pathways in
Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and
Family Life, edited by
Thomas S. Weisner (
The Early Impacts of Moving to
Opportunity in Boston. Subsequently revised and published in Choosing
a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment, edited
by John Goering and Judith Feins (
Effects
of Neighborhood Characteristics on the Mortality of Black Male Youth: Evidence
from Gautreaux. Subsequently revised and published in Social Science and Medicine, 68:5 (March
2009), 814-823. With Mark Votruba.
Experimental
Analysis of Neighborhood Effects. Also available are Appendix
Tables. Available as NBER Working Paper No. 11577.
Subsequently revised and published in Econometrica,
75:1 (January 2007), 83-119. With Jeffrey Liebman and Lawrence Katz. This paper
integrates three unpublished working papers: Beyond
Treatment Effects: Estimating the Relationship between Neighborhood Poverty and
Individual Outcomes in the MTO Experiment, with Jeffrey Liebman and
Lawrence Katz; Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth,
with Jeffrey Liebman; Moving To Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic
Self-sufficiency and Health from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment,
with Jeffrey Liebman,
Is
Crime Contagious? Also available as NBER Working Paper No 12409. Subsequently
revised and published in the Journal of
Law and Economics, 50:3 (August 2007), 491-518. With
Moving At-Risk Teenagers Out of High-Risk
Neighborhoods: Why Girls Fare Better Than Boys.
Moving To Opportunity In Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility
Experiment. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 7973. Subsequently
revised and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics 116:2 (May
2001), 607-654. With
Moving To Opportunity: Interim
Impacts Evaluation.
Neighborhoods
and Academic Achievement: Results from the MTO Experiment. Also
available are Web Appendix Tables. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 11909. Subsequently
revised and published in the Journal of
Human Resources, 41:4 (Fall 2006), 649-691. With Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeanne
Brooks-Gunn, and Greg Duncan.
Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment:
Results From a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment in Baltimore.
Subsequently revised and published in the Brookings-Wharton
Papers on Urban Affairs 2006, edited by
Neighborhood
Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing
Voucher Experiment. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 10777. Subsequently
revised and published in the Quarterly
Journal of Economics 120:1 (February 2005), 87-130. With
Synthesis
of MTO Research on Self-Sufficiency, Safety and Health, and Behavior and
Delinquency. Poverty Research
News 5:1 (Jan-Feb 2001), 3-6. With Alessandra Del Conte.
Urban Poverty and Educational Outcomes: Comments. Subsequently
revised and published in Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban
Affairs 2001, edited by William G. Gale and Janet R.
Pack (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006), 189-192.
What
Can We Learn About Neighborhood Effects from the Moving To Opportunity
Experiment? Published in the American
Journal of Sociology 114:1 (July 2008), 144-188. With Jens O. Ludwig,
Jeffrey B. Liebman,
Additional
information on MTO research is here.
Papers on criminal offenders
Costs, Benefits and Distributional Consequences of
Inmate Labor. Subsequently revised and published in the Proceedings
of the 53rd Annual Meetings (New
Incarceration Length, Employment and Earnings.
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 12003.
Subsequently revised and published in the American
Economic Review, 96:3 (June 2006), 863-876.
The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration.
Subsequently revised and published in Crime and Delinquency 47:3 (July
2001), 410-427. With Bruce Western and David Weiman.
Measuring
Interjudge Disparity in Sentencing: Before and After the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines. Subsequently revised and published in the Journal
of Law and Economics, 42:1 (April 1999), 271-307. With James Anderson and
Kate Stith.
Prison-based
Education and Reentry Into the Mainstream Labor Market. Also
available as NBER Working Paper No. 12114.
Subsequently revised and published in Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market
for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial
Other papers
Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy.
Subsequently revised and forthcoming in the National
Tax Journal. With William J. Congdon and
Framing, Reference Points, and
Preferences for Life Annuities. Unpublished manuscript,
Fundamentally Restructuring
Unemployment Insurance: Wage-loss Insurance and Temporary Earnings Replacement
Accounts. Subsequently revised and published in The Path to
Prosperity: Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security, Education, and Taxes.
Edited by
High performance work systems
and firm performance. Monthly Labor Review, 118:5 (May 1995),
29-36.
Interpreting
Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling. Also
available as NBER Working Paper No. 7989.
Subsequently revised and published in the Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics 19:3 (July 2001), 358-364.
Methodological
Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 12931. Subsequently
revised and published in the National Tax
Journal, 60:1 (March 2007), 109-127.
Misperception
in Choosing Medicare Drug Plans. Unpublished manuscript,
Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption? A
Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle. Also
available as NBER Working Paper No. 13748.
Subsequently revised and published in the American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98:2 (May 2008), 304-309. With
Jeffrey R. Brown,
The
views expressed in these works are those of the authors and should not be
interpreted as those of the Congressional Budget Office.
This
research is based in on work supported by the National Institute on Aging
(P30-AG012810 and P01-AG005842-20S1), the National Institute of Child Health
and Development and the National Institute of Mental Health (R01-HD40404,
R01-HD40444, and R01-MH077026), the National Science Foundation (0527615,
0091854, 9876337, and 9513040), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the
Russell Sage Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the MacArthur
Foundation, the Mott Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Spencer
Foundation, and the W.T. Grant Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and
conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of
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