The Long-Run Effects of America's Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux

We are indebted to Jeff Kling and Todd Richardson for their help accessing data from the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program. Our thanks also go to Barbara Biasi, Marcus Casey, Raj Chetty, Deanna Chyn, David Cutler, Stefanie DeLuca, Ingrid Ellen, Ed Glaeser, Nathan Hendren, Larry Katz, Jeff Kling, Jeff Liebman, and Kate Pennington for helpful conversations. We are grateful for comments and suggestions from seminar participants at the NBER Economics of Mobility Fall 2022 Meeting, NBER Summer Institute 2023 Public Economics Meeting, Opportunity Insights, the U.S. Census Bureau, RAND, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Washington, and Yale University. Blanca Garcia and Emily Davis provided excellent research assistance. This project received financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF Award Number: 2018266). Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. This research was conducted as a part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Evidence Building Project Series. The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data used to produce this product (Data Management System (DMS) number: P-7530292; Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval number(s): CBDRB-FY22-CES018-018, CBDRB-FY23-CES018-007, CBDRB-FY24-0184). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.