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- Title
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice.
- Authors
Bergman, Peter; Chetty, Raj; DeLuca, Stefanie; Hendren, Nathaniel; Katz, Lawrence F.; Palmer, Christopher
- Abstract
Low-income families often live in low-upward-mobility neighborhoods. We study why by using a randomized trial with housing voucher recipients that provided information, financial support, and customized search assistance to move to high-opportunity neighborhoods. The treatment increased the fraction moving to high-upward-mobility areas from 15 to 53 percent. A second trial reveals this treatment effect is driven primarily by customized search assistance. Qualitative interviews show that the intervention relaxed bandwidth constraints and addressed family-specific needs. Our findings imply many low-income families do not have strong preferences to stay in low-opportunity areas and that barriers in housing search significantly increase residential segregation by income. (JEL D83, G51, R21, R23, R31, R38)
- Subjects
POOR families; RESIDENTIAL segregation; HOUSING vouchers; NEIGHBORHOODS; LOW-income housing credit; TREATMENT effectiveness
- Publication
American Economic Review, 2024, Vol 114, Issue 5, p1281
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1257/aer.20200407