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Book
Policy and Choice: Public
Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. (248
pages.) With William J. Congdon and Sendhil
Mullainathan.
Papers on public housing and high-poverty neighborhoods
Associations of Housing
Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence.
Published in Journal of the American Medical Association, 311:9 (March
5, 2014), 937-948. With Ronald C. Kessler, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Nancy A. Sampson, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Alan M. Zaslavsky,
and Jens Ludwig.
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 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005),
243-281. With Jeffrey Liebman and Lawrence Katz.
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 (Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 2003),
177-211. With Lawrence Katz and Jeffrey Liebman.
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.
Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on
Economic Outcomes for Adults. Forthcoming in Housing Policy Debate. With David
J. Harding, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A.
Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler,
Matthew Sciandra, and Jens Ludwig.
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 This paper integrates three unpublished working papers: Beyond Treatment Effects: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), 491-518. With Jens Ludwig.
Long-Term Neighborhood Effects
of the Moving to Opportunity Residential Mobility Experiment on Crime and
Delinquency. Subsequently revised and published in Journal of Experimental Criminology, 9:4
(December 2013), 451-489. With Matthew Sciandra, Lisa
Sanbonmatsu, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Jens
Ludwig.
Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income
Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 18772. Subsequently
revised and published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings,
103:3 (May 2013), 226-231. With Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu.
Moving Teenagers Out of High-Risk Neighborhoods: How
Girls Fare Better Than Boys. Published in the American Journal of Sociology, 116:4 (January 2011), 1154-1189.
With Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin and Greg J. Duncan.
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 Lawrence Katz and Jeffrey Liebman.
Moving To Opportunity: Interim Impacts Evaluation.
Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 2003. With Larry Orr, Judith Feins,
Robin Jacob, Erik Beecroft, Lisa Sanbonmatsu,
Lawrence Katz, and Jeffrey Liebman.
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 Gary Burtless
and Janet R. Pack (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006), 137-187.
With Kristin Turney, Susan Clampet-Lundquist,
Kathryn Edin and Greg J. Duncan.
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 Jens Ludwig and Lawrence Katz.
Neighborhood Effects on the
Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults. Published in Science, 337:6101 (September 21, 2012),
1505-1510. With Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian,
Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu.
Neighborhood Effects on Use of
African-American Vernacular English. Published in Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, 112:38 (September 2015), 11817-11822.
With John R. Rickford, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Ray Yun Gou, Rebecca Greene, Lawrence F. Katz,
Ronald C. Kessler, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Andres E. Sanchez-Ordonez,
Matthew Sciandra, Ewart
Thomas, and Jens Ludwig.
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.
Neighborhoods, Obesity and Diabetes: A Randomized
Social Experiment. Published in the New England Journal of
Medicine, 365:16 (October 20, 2011), 1509-1519. With Jens Ludwig, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Lisa Gennetian, Emma
Adam, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Stacy T. Lindau,
Robert C. Whitaker, and Thomas W. McDade.
New Kids on
the Block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.
Published in Education Next 7:4 (Fall
2007), 60-66. With Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Greg J. Duncan,
and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
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.
The Long-Term Effects of
Moving to Opportunity on Youth Outcomes. Published in Cityscape, 14:2 (2012), 137-167. With
Lisa A. Gennetian, Matthew Sciandra,
Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jens Ludwig, Lawrence F. Katz, Greg
J. Duncan, and Ronald C. Kessler.
The Long-Term Effects of
Moving to Opportunity on Adult Health and Economic Self-Sufficiency.
Published in Cityscape, 14:2 (2012),
109-136. With Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jordan Marvakov, Nicholas A. Potter, Fanghua
Yang, Emma Adam, William J. Congdon, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Stacy Tessler Lindau, and Jens Ludwig.
Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on Education
Outcomes: Setting the Stage for Future Research. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 16055. Subsequently
revised and published in Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and
Children's Life Chances, edited by Greg J. Duncan and Richard Murnane (New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2011),
277-296. With David J. Harding, Lisa Gennetian,
Christopher Winship, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu.
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,
Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu.
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 Orleans, January 4-7 2001), Madison, WI: Industrial
Relations Research Association, 349-358. With Alan Krueger.
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 America, edited by Shawn Bushway,
Michael Stoll, and David Weiman (New York: Russell
Sage Foundation Press, 2007), 227-256. With John Tyler.
Other papers
Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy. Also
available as NBER Working Paper No. 15328.
Subsequently revised and published in the National
Tax Journal 62 (September 2009), 375-386. With William J. Congdon and Sendhil Mullainathan.
Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from
Medicare Drug Plans. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 17410. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127:1
(February 2012), 199-235. With Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee C. Vermeulen, and Marian V. Wrobel.
Framing Lifetime Income. Also available as
NBER Working Paper No. 19063. Subsequently
revised and published in the Journal of Retirement, 1:1 (Summer 2013), 27-37. With Jeffrey R. Brown, Sendhil
Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel.
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 Jason
Furman and Jason E. Bordoff. (Washington, DC: The Brookings
Institution, 2008), 29-62.
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.
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations.
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 17062.
Subsequently revised and published in the Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 25:3 (Summer 2011), 17-38. With Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan.
Mechanism Experiments for Crime Policy.
Subsequently revised and published in Lessons
From the Economics of Crime: What Reduces Offending? Edited by Philip J. Cook, Stephen Machin,
Oliver Marie, and Giovanni Mastrubuoni. (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2013), 67-92. With Jens Ludwig and Sendhil
Mullainathan.
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.
Social Policy: Mechanism
Experiments and Policy Evaluations. Subsequently revised and
published in Handbook of Economic Field Experiments: Volume 2. Edited by
Abhijit Bannerjee and
Esther Duflo. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2017), 389-426.
With William J. Congdon, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil
Mullainathan.
The Role of the Earned Income
Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Families. Subsequently
revised and published in Social Service
Review 86:3 (September 2012), 367-400. With Ruby Mendenhall, Kathryn Edin,
Susan Crowley, Jennifer Sykes, Laura Tach, and Katrin
Kriz.
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, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel.
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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (R49-CE000906), the National
Institute on Aging (P30-AG012810, P01-AG005842-20S1, R56-AG031259 and
P01-AG005842-22S1), the Institute of Education Sciences at the Department of
Education (R305U070006), 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 (C-CHI-00808), the
Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 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
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