Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic Self-Sufficiency and Health From a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

By Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz, L. Sanbonmatsu. 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Growing up in a Recession (2014, unknown): “We computed the AES following Kling et al. (2004).”
Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda (2007, unknown): “To form judgment about the impact of the intervention on a family of K related outcomes, we follow Kling et al. (2004) and estimate a seemingly unrelated regression system,”
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics (2005, background): “Evidence from the MTO studies are still being analyzed but provide the best available information on the impact of urban neighborhood effects on low-income family outcomes (Orr et al. 2003; Kling et al. 2004; Kling, Ludwig, and Katz forthcoming).”
The role of family socioeconomic resources in the black-white test score gap among young children (2006, background): “Another possible explanation is that while MTO-related neighborhood advantages appeared to improve the mental health of mothers, they did not translate into other kinds of household resources or advantages that might have improved children’s well-being (Kling et al., 2004; Orr et al., 2003).”
USING RANDOMIZATION IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS RESEARCH: A TOOLKIT (2008, background): “1 Kremer (2003) and Glewwe and Kremer (2006) provide a review of randomized evaluations in education;”
Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women Leaders in India (2004, unknown): “The standard error for these averages is derived from the variance covariance matrix for the 5 coeﬃcients obtained from jointly estimating the equations for the 5 public goods (see Katz, Kling and Liebman (2004)).”
The Theoretical Basis for Addressing Poverty Through Mixed-Income Development (2007, background): “The increased sense of security appears to lead to mental health benefits (Kling et al. 2004).”
Crime and Mental Well-Being (2014, unknown): “Based on the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment, Katz, Kling and Liebman (2001); Kling, Liebman and Katz (2001); and Kling et al. (2004) do just that.”
Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being (2005, unknown): “In their study of the randomized Moving to Opportunity experiment, Kling et al. [2004] find that individuals moving to lower-poverty census tracts report lower levels of psychological distress. Thus, for mental health measures such as depression or psychological distress, the benefits associated wit”
Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement* (2013, methodology): “To evaluate the likelihood of finding so many consistent results, we follow the method used in Kling et al. (2004), Kling, Liebman, and Katz (2007), and Clingingsmith, Khwaja, and 30.”
Neighbourhoods, Households and Income Dynamics: A Semi-Parametric Investigation of Neighbourhood Effects (2004, methodology): “Allowing for a longer elapsed time (5 years), Kling et al (2004) using MTO data find no significant overall effects on adult employment, earnings, or welfare receipt4.”