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Title: Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2016

Abstract: This paper finds evidence of positive neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. Our results stand in such sharp contrast to the current literature because our analysis focuses on outcomes of the subpopulation induced by the program to move to a higher quality neighborhood, while previous analyses have focused on outcomes of either the entire population or the subpopulation induced by the program to move. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying heterogeneous transition-specific effects that exploits the identification of the idiosyncratic, unobserved component of a neighborhood choice model. We estimate Local Average Treatment Effects (LATEs) of the change in quality most commonly induced by MTO vouchers, between the first and second deciles of the national distribution of neighborhood quality. Although MTO vouchers induced much larger changes in neighborhood quality than standard Section 8 vouchers, these LATEs only pertain to a subpopulation representing about nine percent of program participants.

Url: http://www.dionissialiprantis.com/pdfs/LATEs_of_nbd_quality_REStat1.pdf

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Authors: Aliprantis, Dionissi; Richter, Francisca G.-C

Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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