Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choicer

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bergman, Peter; Chetty, Raj; Deluca, Stefanie; Hendren, Nathaniel; Katz, Lawrence f.; Palmer, Christopher
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20200407
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1281-1337
• 关键词: HOUSING ASSISTANCE; mobility; search; income; preferences; impacts; poverty; selection; exposure; outcomes

摘要

Low-income families often live in low -upward -mobility neighborhoods. We study why by using a randomized trial with housing voucher recipients that provided information, financial support, and customized search assistance to move to high -opportunity neighborhoods. The treatment increased the fraction moving to high -upward -mobility areas from 15 to 53 percent. A second trial reveals this treatment effect is driven primarily by customized search assistance. Qualitative interviews show that the intervention relaxed bandwidth constraints and addressed family -specific needs. Our findings imply many low-income families do not have strong preferences to stay in low -opportunity areas and that barriers in housing search significantly increase residential segregation by income.