Neighborhood Sorting Obscures Neighborhood Effects in the Opportunity Atlas

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

This paper finds evidence of positive neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. Our results stand in such sharp contrast to the current literature because our analysis focuses on outcomes of the subpopulation induced by the program to move to a higher quality neighborhood, while previous analyses have focused on outcom...

Household Sorting and Neighborhood Formation

Neighborhood Opportunity Structures and Immigrants’ Socioeconomic Advancement

This article explores immigrants’ socioeconomic success consequential to their choice of neighborhood. We describe and analyze seven aspects of socioeconomic success during the 1980s for 14 immigrant groups in five metropolitan areas. Exposure indices measuring aspects of the census tracts in which these groups lived in 1980 are calculated and analyzed. Multiple regression explores the degree t...

Neighborhood Effects

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Identifying Individual and Group Effects in the Presence of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application

Researchers have long recognized that the non-random sorting of individuals into groups generates correlation between individual and group attributes that is likely to bias naı̈ve estimates of both individual and group effects. This paper proposes a nonparametric strategy for identifying these effects in a model that allows for both individual and group unobservables, applying this strategy to t...