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Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment / Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeffrey R. Kling, Greg J. Duncan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanbonmatsu, Lisa.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11909.
- NBER working paper series no. w11909
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on test scores for any age group among over 5000 children ages 6 to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after randomization. Program impacts on school environments were considerably smaller than impacts on neighborhoods, suggesting that achievement-related benefits from improved neighborhood environments are alone small.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2006.
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