Response to Review of Choosing a Better Life? Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment
By J. Goering, J. Feins. Children, Youth and Environments, 2003
251 citations recorded by the source corpus.
As the centerpiece of policymakers? efforts to ?deconcentrate? poverty in urban America, the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) project gave roughly 4,600 volunteer families the chance to move out of public housing projects in deeply impoverished neighborhoods in five cities?Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Researchers wanted to find out to what extent moving out of a poor neighborhood into a better-off area would improve the lives of public housing families. Choosing a Better Life? is the first distillation of years of research on the MTO project, the largest rigorously designed social experiment to investigate the consequences of moving low-income public housing residents to low-poverty neighborhoods. In this book, leading social scientists and policy experts examine the legislative and political foundations of the project, analyze the effects of MTO on lives of the families involved, and explore lessons learned from this important piece of U.S. social policy. ?I recommend the book to all scholars of housing and antipoverty policy.? --Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Development
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8fff2cf65b118a508b927654c9f1902fc9f73c27
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Sociology and Political Science
- Jens Ludwig
- Jeffrey R. Kling
- Lawrence F. Katz
- Jeffrey B. Liebman
- G. Duncan
- L. Sanbonmatsu
- Mario Luis Small
- Ronald C. Kessler
Citations in the corpus
- The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods:An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects (2006, background): “Moving to Opportunity (MTO), a federal housing program that provides vouchers for residents seeking housing assistance, assesses the effect of moving to middle-class neighborhoods (Goering, Feins and Richardson 2003).”
- Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Economic Self-Sufficiency and Health From a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment (2004, background): “10 Among analyses of adult outcomes, Ludwig, Duncan, and Pinkston (2005) examined Baltimore; Katz, Kling, and Liebman (2001) examined Boston; Hanratty, McLanahan, and Pettit (2003) examined Los Angeles; and Leventhal and Brooks-Gunn (2003a, 2003b) examined New York. were true, and, using the entire ”
- What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment?1 (2008, background): “The available data suggest that around one-quarter of eligible families applied (Goering et al. 2003, p. 11).”