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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 106, Issue 4, Pages 855-902Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20150572
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- IRS [TIRNO-12-P-00374]
- National Science Foundation
- NIA [R01 A0031259]
- Lab for Economic Applications and Policy at Harvard
- Laura and John Arnold Foundation
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1260964] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families housing vouchers to move from high-poverty housing projects to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We analyze MTO's impacts on children's long-term outcomes using tax data. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood when young (before age 13) increases college attendance and earnings and reduces single parenthood rates. Moving as an adolescent has slightly negative impacts, perhaps because of disruption effects. The decline in the gains from moving with the age when children move suggests that the duration of exposure to better environments during childhood is an important determinant of children's long-term outcomes.
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