Final Impacts Evaluation
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 & Proceedings, 103(3): 226-231. May 2013.
Full Text (PDF)
Also issued as NBER Working Paper 18772
Neighborhood Effects on Use of African-American Vernacular English
John R. Rickford, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Ray Yun Gou, Rebecca Greene, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Andres E. Sanchez-Ordoñez, Matthew Sciandra, Ewart Thomas, and Jens Ludwig
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(38): 11817-11822. September 2015.
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Supporting Information (PDF)
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence F. Katz
Full Text (PDF)
Also issued as NBER Working Paper 21156
Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence
Ronald C. Kessler, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Nancy A. Sampson, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Alan M. Zaslavsky, and Jens Ludwig
Journal of the American Medical Association, 311(9): 937-948. March 2014.
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Supplemental Content (PDF)
Interview video with lead author Ronald Kessler
This Week in JAMA podcast with commentary by Senior Editor Jody W. Zylke
Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults
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.
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Supplementary Materials (PDF)
Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes: A Randomized Social Experiment
Jens Ludwig, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Lisa Gennetian, Emma Adam, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence Katz, Ronald Kessler, Jeffrey Kling, Stacy Tessler Lindau, Robert Whitaker, and Thomas McDade
New England Journal of Medicine. 365(16): 1509-1519. October 2011.
Full Text (PDF)
Supplementary Appendix (PDF)
Long-Term Effects of the Moving to Opportunity Residential Mobility Experiment on Crime and Delinquency
Matthew Sciandra, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Jens Ludwig
Journal of
Experimental Criminology, 9(4): 451-489. September 2013.
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Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program: Final Impacts Evaluation
Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jens Ludwig, Lawrence F. Katz, Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Ronald C. Kessler, Emma Adam, Thomas W. McDade, and Stacy Tessler Lindau
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. October 2011.
Full Report (PDF)
Executive Summary (PDF)
Symposium on MTO. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 14(2): 1-218. September 2012. Guest edited by MTO Project Director Jens Ludwig.
Guest Editors Introduction Jens Ludwig
Moving to Opportunity: Why, How, and What Next? Mark Shroder and Larry Orr
Achieving MTOs High Effective Response Rates: Strategies and Tradeoffs Nancy Gebler, Lisa A. Gennetian, Margaret L. Hudson, Barbara Ward, and Matthew Sciandra
MTO: A Successful Housing Intervention Jennifer Comey, Susan Popkin, and Kaitlin Franks
The Long-Term Impacts of Moving to Opportunity on Adult Health and Economic Self-Sufficiency Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jordan Marvakov, Nicholas A. Potter, Emma Adam, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Ronald C. Kessler, Stacy Tessler Lindau, Jens Ludwig, and Thomas W. McDade
The Long-Term Impacts of Moving to Opportunity on Youth Outcomes Lisa A. Gennetian, Matthew Sciandra, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jens Ludwig, Lawrence F. Katz, Greg J. Duncan, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Ronald C. Kessler
Making MTO Health Results More Relevant to Current Housing Policy: Next Steps Thomas D. Cook and Coady Wing
Constrained Compliance: Solving the Puzzle of MTOs Lease-Up Rates and Why Mobility Matters Kathryn Edin, Stefanie DeLuca, and Ann Owens
Increasing the Value of MTO Research for Housing Policy Development Edgar O. Olsen
Moving Neighborhoods Versus Reforming Schools: A Canadians Perspective Philip Oreopoulos
Commentary: MTOs Contribution to a Virtuous Cycle of Policy Experimentation and Learning Margery Austin Turner
Additional FINDINGS And Reports
Neighborhood Poverty and Quality in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment (PDF version)
Dionissi Aliprantis
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working Paper 15-06. March 2015.
Moving to Opportunity: The Effects of Concentrated Poverty on the Poor
Jens Ludwig
Report published by Third Way. September 2014.
What Happens to Housing Assistance Leavers?
Robin E. Smith, Susan J. Popkin, Taz George, and Jennifer Comey
Low-Income Working Families Paper 27. June 2014.
Summary available in the London School of Economics American Politics and Policy blog: Housing assistance is a safety net, not a springboard to economic opportunity
Why Concentrated Poverty Matters
Lisa A. Gennetian, Jens Ludwig, Thomas McDade, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Pathways Magazine. Spring 2013: 9-13.
Helping Poor Families Gain and Sustain Access to High-Opportunity Neighborhoods
Margery Austin Turner, Jennifer Comey, Daniel Kuehn, and Austin Nichols
Urban Institute Research Brief. December 2011.
Principal
Investigator: Lawrence F. Katz,
PhD, National Bureau of Economic Research
and
Project Director:
Jens
Ludwig, PhD,
Director of Survey
Data Collection: Nancy Gebler, MA, Institute for Social Research,
Government Technical Representative & Project Officer: Mark Shroder, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research, Evaluation and Monitoring, HUD Office of Policy Development & Research
NBER Research
Analysts & Assistants
Joe Amick
Alessandra Del Conte Dickovick
Magali Fassiotto
Ryan Gillette
Ray Yun Gou
Ijun Lai
Santhi Hariprasad
Jordan Marvakov
Plamen Nikolov
Nicholas Potter
Matthew Sciandra
Fanghua Yang
Sabrina Yusuf
Michael Zabek