We examine the effects of moving out of high-poverty neighborhoods on the outcomes of teenage youth, a population often seen as most at…
We study adult economic and health outcomes in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration, a randomized housing mobility experiment in…
Several important social science literatures hinge on the functional relationship between neighborhood characteristics and individual…
This paper investigates whether individuals feel worse off when others around them earn more. In other words, do people care about…
Although many opponents of welfare reform predicted that it would increase hardship,
the official poverty rate for female headed families…