Post-Interim

Qualitative Findings

Documents

• Why Did the Moving to Opportunity Experiment Not Get Young People into Better Schools?

Xavier de Souza Briggs, Kadija Ferryman, Susan J. Popkin, and María Rendón. March 2008.

• 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.   March

THE URBAN institute’s three-city study of the mto program

• Commentary: New Findings on the Benefits and Limitations of Assisted Housing Mobility

Susan J. Popkin. April 2008.

• Girls in the ’Hood: The Importance of Feeling Safe

Susan J. Popkin, Tama Leventhal, and Gretchen Weissman. March 2008.

• Have MTO Families Lost Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods Over Time?

G. Thomas Kingsley and Kathryn L.S. Pettit. March 2008.

• Do Better Neighborhoods for MTO Families Mean Better Schools?

Kadija Ferryman, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popkin, and María Rendón

• Can Escaping from Poor Neighborhoods Increase Employment and Earnings?

Elizabeth Cove, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Margery Austin Turner, and Cynthia Duarte. March 2008.

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

Margery Austin Turner and Xavier de Souza Briggs. March 2008.

• Struggling to Stay Out of High-Poverty Neighborhoods: Lessons from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Jennifer Comey and Xavier de Souza Briggs, and Gretchen Weissman. March 2008.

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