Title
Evidence of Neighborhood effects from moving to opportunity: Lates of Neighborhood quality
Date Issued
01 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Case Western Reserve University
Publisher(s)
MIT Press Journals
Abstract
This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying transitionspecific effects that exploits identification of the unobserved component of a neighborhood choice model. Estimated local average treatment effects (LATEs) are large, result from moves between the first and second deciles of the national distribution of neighborhood quality, and pertain to a subpopulation of nine percent of program participants.
Start page
633
End page
647
Volume
102
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Temas sociales Estudios urbanos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85093868818
Source
Review of Economics and Statistics
ISSN of the container
00346535
Sponsor(s)
We thank Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Greg Caetano, Karim Chalak, Ben Craig, Joel Elvery, Kyle Hood, Jon James, Jeffrey Kling, Carlos Lamarche, Fabian Lange, Alvin Murphy, David Phillips, Stephen Ross, Randall Walsh, the editor Bryan Graham, and several anonymous referees for helpful comments, as well as seminar participants at Case Western, the Cleveland Fed, Fribourg, GATE/Lyon II, Pitt, Rochester, UC Riverside, the 2016 Federal Reserve System Regional conference, 2016 Midwest Econometrics Group conference, 2015 Society of Labor Economists conference, 2014 Econometric Society European Meetings, 2013 Midwest Economics Association conference, 2013 Urban Economics Association conference, and 2012 Kentucky-Cleveland Fed Economics of Education Workshop. We also thank Emily Burgen and Nelson Oliver for valuable research assistance and Paul Joice at HUD for his assistance with the data set. The views stated here are our own and are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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