… Our early work at the Boston site (Katz, Kling, and Liebman (2001)) suggested that the
MTO intervention may have had important health impacts and led us to expand the outcomes …

We examine short-run impacts of changes in residential neighborhoods on the well-being of
families residing in high-poverty public housing projects who received Section 8 housing …

Background The question of whether neighborhood environment contributes directly to the
development of obesity and diabetes remains unresolved. The study reported on here uses …

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random
lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential …

Nearly 9 million Americans live in extreme-poverty neighborhoods, places that also tend to
be racially segregated and dangerous. Yet, the effects on the well-being of residents of …

… If longer incarceration increases the chances of being more suited for only unskilled,
lower-paying work after release, then I hypothesized in Kling (2004) that the effects of longer …

Rapid growth in the incarceration rate over the past two decades has made prison time a
routine event in the life course of young, economically disadvantaged Black and Hispanic men. …

By Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel* annuity
markets, including the absence of inflation protection, the inability to insure against medical …

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the
Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment. This experiment offered …

Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery,
encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized …