Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: Lates of Neighborhood Quality

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aliprantis, Dionissi; Richter, Francisca G. -C.
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Cleveland; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00933
• 发表日期: 2020-10
• 页码: 633-647
• 关键词: binary choice; models; identification; mobility; LESSONS; school

摘要

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 transition-specific 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.