Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality

Dionissi Aliprantis; Francisca Richter

doi:10.1162/rest_a_00933

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Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality

Dionissi Aliprantis¹; Francisca Richter²

¹ Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland · ² Case Western Reserve University

The Review of Economics and Statistics 2020

Abstract This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying transition-specific effects that exploits identification of the unobserved component of a neighborhood choice model. Estimated local average treatment effects (LATEs) are large, result from moves between the first and second deciles of the national distribution of neighborhood quality, and pertain to a subpopulation of nine percent of program participants.

DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00933
Volume: 102 (4)
Pages: 633-647
Language: en
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