Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults

By Jens Ludwig, G. Duncan, L. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling, L. Sanbonmatsu. Science, 2012

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective (2015, unknown): “Indeed, in the context of the Moving to Opportunity experiment, adults who received an experimental voucher to move to a lower-poverty area report significantly higher subjective well-being after moving (Ludwig et al. 2012). This finding suggests that experienced utility increased after individuals ”
Social responsibility of major infrastructure projects in China (2015, background): “MIPs could raise employment, improve the physical and mental health of a community (Ludwig et al., 2012) and increase the public's happiness, so as to promote social stability and progress, especially in China (Xu and Yang, 2010).”
Neighborhood Quality and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Quasi-Random Neighborhood Assignment of Immigrants (2013, background): “…immigrant and co-ethnic networks, i.e. defined as connections between individuals of 4 See the quasi-experimental study by Oreopoulos (2003) and evaluations of the Moving to Opportunity Program by Katz et al. (2001), Kling et al. (2007), Sanbonmatsu et al. (2011) and Ludwig et al. (2012).”
The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments (2016, unknown): “MTO movers also experienced significant increases in adult subjective wellbeing with larger gains for adults from sites where treatment induced larger reductions in neighborhood poverty (Ludwig et al. 2012).”
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and 30 Day Rehospitalizations: An Analysis of Medicare Data (2014, background): “Boston (I) 15 566 584 (4) New York (II) 26 362 2744 (10) Philadelphia (III) 26 557 3530 (13) Atlanta (IV) 54 867 9846 (18) Chicago (V) 54 748 6273 (11) Dallas (VI) 28 559 9904 (35) Kansas City (VII) 15 395 3486 (23) Denver (VIII) 5676 754 (13) San Francisco (IX) 20 937 943 (5) Seattle (X) 6301 212 (”
The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health (2016, unknown): “Several non-experimental studies – almost entirely based on cross-sectional analysis - find significant associations between the mental health of residents and aspects of the neighbourhood environment.7 Based on the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment, a randomized experiment on residential mobil”
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice (2019, background): “Studies of the MTO experiment have shown that families who moved to higher-opportunity areas as required by the experimental treatment had improved mental health and well-being and better economic outcomes for their children (Kling, Liebman, and Katz 2007; Chetty, Hendren, and Katz 2016; Ludwig et a”
Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms (2020, background): “In the United States, randomly selected low-income households that were paid to move to more affluent neighborhoods saw reductions in depression and anxiety despite little effect on income (55).”