Information about Restricted Access Data
MTO data public use files (PUFs) are available for the following articles:
Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity
Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings103(3): 226-231. May 2013.
Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes: A Randomized Social Experiment (Supplementary Appendix)
Jens Ludwig, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Lisa Gennetian, Emma Adam, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence Katz, Ronald Kessler, Jeffrey Kling, Stacy TesslerLindau, Robert Whitaker, and Thomas McDade
New England Journal of Medicine 365(16): 1509-1519. October 2011.
Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults (Supplementary Materials)
Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Science 337(6101): 1505-1510. September 2012.
The table below includes links to the PUFs themselves as well as documentation for the files.
| PUF1 | Documentation | Cell-Level PUF2 | Pseudo-Individual PUF2,3 (based on cell-level data) | ||||||||||
| Main Memo | Detailed Variable Information | Original Version Date | Last Updated | Stata File Link | Number of Cells | Original Version Date | Last Updated | Cells homogenous by: | Stata File Link | File N | Original Version Date | Last Updated | |
| AER P&P Adults4 | PDF | Appendix G | 11/20/13 | 12/9/13 | Download | 81 | 10/25/13 | N/A | Site, treatment group | Download | 3,273 | 10/25/13 | N/A |
| NEJM (adults) | PDF | Appendix F | 11/20/13 | 12/9/13 | Download | 81 | 10/25/13 | N/A | Site, treatment group | Download | 3,273 | 10/25/13 | N/A |
| Science (adults) | PDF | Appendix J | 9/21/12 | 10/8/13 | Download | 158 | 9/21/12 | 2/6/13 | Site, treatment group | Download | 3,273 | 9/21/12 | 2/6/13 |
1 AER P&P = American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. NEJM = New England Journal of Medicine.
2 The data were provided by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and any paper that uses the data must acknowledge the Department.
3 WARNING: THESE DATA ARE NOT ACTUAL INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL DATA. PLEASE REFER TO THE DOCUMENTATION BEFORE ANALYZING THESE DATA. Due to the way the cells were constructed, these data are useful for looking at differences by site and/or treatment group but do not allow for other types of analyses.
4 The AER P&P also included analyses of the MTO youth sample, for whom data are not currently available but will be in the future.
Information about Restricted Access Data
Final Impacts Evaluation Science Article Data Available via ICPSR (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/34860)
This dataset is the individual-level restricted access version of the PUF listed above that allows for the (approximate) replication of the results from the MTO article that appeared in the journal Science in September 2012 (see above for specific citation information). The data are from the MTO Final Impacts Evaluation, which took place in 2008-2010 (10 to 16 years after families were randomly assigned). The variables available on the dataset are a subset of those collected as part of the MTO final (or long-term) evaluation. For reasons of confidentiality, researchers need to apply to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) for access to the data.
MTO Data Available via Data License with HUD (https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/linkage/projects/HUDmtofos.html)
Other restricted access data from the MTO final impacts evaluation are available via Data License Agreement with the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It may be helpful to review the MTO survey instruments before submitting an application, and including specifics about the survey questions of interest may expedite HUDÂ’s review of the application.
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