Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment

By Jens Ludwig, G. Duncan, Paul J. Hirschfield. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Moving to opportunity: an experimental study of neighborhood effects on mental health. (2003, result): “For instance, the favorable results reported correspond with other MTO site evaluations, particularly reductions in male youths’ arrests for violent crime and improvements in children’s health for incidents necessitating medical intervention.(24,25) In addition, results partially concur with finding”
The neighborhoods they live in: the effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent outcomes. (2000, methodology): “Ludwig, Duncan, and Hirschfield (1998) used experimental data from the Baltimore sample of MTO to examine the frequency of criminal activity among predominantly African American adolescents aged 13-17.”
Neighbourhood effects on social opportunities: the European and American research and policy context (2003, methodology): “…poverty deconcentration programmes, both quasi-experimental designs, as in the Gautreaux and Yonkers programs (e.g. Briggs, 1998; Rosenbaum, 1995), or random-experimental designs, as in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration (Del Conte & Kling, 2001; Katz et al., 2001; Ludwig et al., 2001).”
Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment (2005, methodology): “But when we use the same age group as in Ludwig, Duncan, and Hirschﬁeld [2001], we ﬁnd that the MTO treatments reduce violent-crime arrests for males through the ﬁrst two postprogram years in every site but New York.”
Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes (2008, neutral): “17 standard errors using a pairwise bootstrap with the HC3 correction and also with a wild bootstrap (Mammen (1993); Flachaire (1999), (forthcoming)).”
Creating When You Have Less: The Impact of Resource Scarcity on Product Use Creativity (2016, background): “…of sociological, political, economic, and personal characteristics of resource-constrained people, such as their living conditions (Hill 2001; Ludwig, Duncan, and Hirschfield 2001; Rosa et al. 2012), health (Johnson, Mermin, and Murphy 2007), education (Bernheim, Garrett, and Maki 2001), and…”
Studying Intraindividual Variability: What We Have Learned That Will Help Us Understand Lives in Context (2004, background): “Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing-voucher experiment, which randomly assigned housing-project residents in high-poverty neighborhoods of five of the nation’s largest cities to either a group that was offered a housing voucher to relocate to a lower pov”
How Long are Exposures to Poor Neighborhoods? The Long-Term Dynamics of Entry and Exit from Poor Neighborhoods (2003, background): “Recent studies suggest that children who grow up in poor neighborhoods are more likely to experience outcomes such as delinquency, teenage childbearing, dropping out of high school, and low academic achievement than otherwise similar children who grow up in more affluent neighborhoods (Brooks-Gunn e”