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Senior
Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies The
Brookings Institution |
e-mail: jkling@brookings.edu phone: 202-797-6304 fax: 202-797-6181 web: http://www.brookings.edu/experts/k/klingj.aspx |
Papers on public housing and high-poverty neighborhoods
Bullets Don't Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto. Forthcoming 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.
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 This paper integrates three unpublished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, Lawrence Katz, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu (with Appendix
Tables).
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), forthcoming. 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 (
The
MTO-Boston survey instrument and documentation is available here.
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
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.
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), forthcoming. With
Jeffrey R. Brown,
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This
research is based in on work supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, the National Institute of Child Health and Development and the
National Institute of Mental Health (R01-HD40404 and R01-HD40444), the National
Science Foundation (0527615, 0091854, 9876337, and 9513040), the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Smith Richardson
Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Mott Foundation, the W.T. Grant
Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Any
opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this
material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views
of the funders.
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