Interim Findings

• Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Interim Impacts Evaluation

Executive Summary

Full Report

• Main Findings from Interim Data Collection
• Other Research Using Interim Data
• Research Briefs

This research is based on data collected in 2002, in all five MTO sites, and the 2002 data are now available via ICPSR.

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MAIN FINDINGS FROM INTERIM DATA COLLECTION

• Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
• Also available are Web Appendix Tables

Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Lawrence F. Katz

Econometrica. 75(1): 83-119. January 2007.

• Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

Jeffrey R. Kling, Jens Ludwig, and Lawrence F. Katz

Quarterly Journal of Economics. 120(1): 87-130. February 2005.

• Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the MTO Experiment
• Also available are Web Appendix Tables

Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, and Jeffrey R. Kling

Journal of Human Resources. 41(4): 649–691. Fall 2006.

• Is Crime Contagious?

Jens Ludwig and Jeffrey R. Kling

Journal of Law and Economics. 50(3): 491-518. August 2007.

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OtHER RESEARCH USING INTERIM DATA

• Spatial Mobility and Environmental Effects on Obesity

Zhenxiang Zhaoa, Robert Kaestner, and Xin Xu

Economics & Human Biology, 14: 128-140. July 2014. [Abstract available here, online appendix available here.]

• Differential Mental Health Effects of Neighborhood Relocation Among Youth in Vulnerable Families: Results From a Randomized Trial

Theresa L. Osypuk, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Felton J. Earls, Alisa Lincoln, Nicole M. Schmidt, and M. Maria Glymour

Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(12): 1284–1294. October 2012.

• Moving to Opportunity: The Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment

Claudine Gay

Urban Affairs Review, 48(2): 147-79. March 2012. [Abstract available here.]

• Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment

Sebastian Galiani, Alvin Murphy, and Juan Patano

Working Paper available via the Social Science Research Network. March 2012.

• Local Average Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity

Dionissi Aliprantis and Francisca G.-C. Richter

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working Paper 12-08. March 2012.

• Neighborhood Poverty and Children’s Exposure to Danger: Examining the Gender Difference in Impacts of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Anita Zuberi

Social Science Research, 41(4): 788-801. January 2012.

• Converging Evidence for Neighborhood Effects on Children’s Test Scores: An Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Observational Comparison

Julia Burdick-Will, Jens Ludwig, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Robert J. Sampson, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, and Patrick Sharkey

In Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances. Russell Sage Foundation. September 2011. [Draft version available here.]

• Moving to Opportunity: Does long-term exposure to low-poverty neighborhoods make a difference for adolescents?

Tama Leventhal and Veronique Dupéré

Social Science and Medicine. 73(5): 737-43. September 2011. [Abstract available here.]

• Moving Teenagers Out of High-Risk Neighborhoods: How Girls Fare Better than Boys

Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Greg J. Duncan

American Journal of Sociology. 116(4): 1154-89. January 2011.

• Child Health and Neighborhood Conditions: Results from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

Jane Fortson and Lisa Sanbonmatsu

Journal of Human Resources. 45(4): 840-64. Fall 2010.

• Does Moving To Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program.

Stefanie DeLuca and Peter Rosenblatt

Teachers College Record. 112(5): 1443-91. 2010.

• What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment?

Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Jeffrey R. Kling, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu

American Journal of Sociology. 114(1): 144–88. July 2008.

• No more ‘Bois ball: The impact of relocation from public housing on adolescents

Susan Clampet-Lundquist

Journal of Adolescent Research. 22(3): 298-323. May 2007. [Abstract available here.]

• Child Characteristics and Successful Use of Housing Vouchers

Emily K. Snell and Greg J. Duncan

Housing Policy Debate. 17(4): 727-54. Winter 2006. [Abstract available here.]

• Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment: Results from a Randomized Housing Mobility Experiment in Baltimore

Kristin Turney, Kathryn Edin, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Greg J. Duncan

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, pp. 137-87. Summer 2006.

• Assisted Housing Mobility and the Success of Low-Income Minority Families: Lessons for Policy, Practice, and Future Research

Xavier de Souza Briggs and Margery A. Turner

Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy. 1(1): 110-126. Summer 2006.

• Mobility Lessons from Gautreaux and Moving to Opportunity

Greg J. Duncan and Anita Zuberi

Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy. 1(1): 110-126. Summer 2006.

• Moving at-risk teenagers out of high-risk neighborhoods: Why girls fare better than boys

Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Greg J. Duncan

Princeton University Industrial Relations Section. Working Paper 888. March 2006.

• Neighborhood and gender effects on family processes: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration

Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies. 54(5): 633-643. December 2005.

• Neighborhood poverty and public policy: A 5-year follow-up of children's educational outcomes in the New York City Moving to Opportunity Demonstration

Tama Leventhal, Rebecca Fauth, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Developmental Psychology. 41(5): 933-952. November 2005.

• Fifteen years later: Can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape from neighborhood segregation, crime, and poverty?

Micere Keels, Greg J. Duncan, Stefanie Deluca, Ruby Mendenhall, and James Rosenbaum

Demography. 42(1): 51-73. February 2005.

• Housing mobility programs and economic self-sufficiency: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, and Joshua C. Pinkston.

Journal of Public Economics. 89(1): 131-156. January 2005.

• The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America

Xavier de Souza Briggs, ed.

Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

• Civilization in Color: The Multicultural City in Three Millennia

Xavier de Souza Briggs

City and Community. 3(4): 311-42. December 2004.

• Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic Self-sufficiency and Health from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
• Also available are Web Appendix Tables.

Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu

Princeton University Industrial Relations Section. Working Paper 860. October 2004.

• Beyond Treatment Effects: Estimating the Relationship between Neighborhood Poverty and Individual Outcomes in the MTO Experiment

Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz, and Jeffrey R. Kling

Princeton University Industrial Relations Section. Working Paper 493. August 2004.

• Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth

Jeffrey R. Kling and Jeffrey B. Liebman

Princeton University Industrial Relations Section. Working Paper 1. May 2004.

• Traps and Stepping Stones: Neighborhood Dynamics and Family Well-being

Xavier de Souza Briggs

Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Working Paper Series RWP-04-13. March 2004.

• Moving to Opportunity: An experimental study of neighborhood effects on mental health

Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.

American Journal of Public Health. 93(9): 1576-82. September 2003.

• The Impacts of New Neighborhoods on Poor Families: Evaluating the Policy Implications of the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration

John Goering.

Economic Policy Review. 9(2): 113-40. June 2003.

• Chapters from Choosing A Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment.

Urban Institute Press. June 2003.

• MTO’s Effects on Children and Parents: Evidence from Baltimore

Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, and Helen F. Ladd

• New York City site findings: The early impacts of moving to opportunity on children and youth

Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, and Helen F. Ladd

• A cross-site analysis of MTO’s locational impacts

Judith Feins

• Indicators of children’s well-being in a community context

Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

From Long-term trends in the well-being of children and youth. April 2003.

• Children and youth in neighborhood context

Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.

Current Directions in Psychological Science. 12(1): 27-31. February 2003.

• Moving on up: Neighborhood effects on children and families

Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

From Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development. November 2002.

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RESEARCH BRIEFS

• Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth and Youth Criminal Behavior in the MTO Experiment

• Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility

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