Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment, which offered some public-housing families but not others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods. We show that 10-15 years after本研究利用机遇迁居计划（Moving to Opportunity, MTO）随机住房迁移实验所采集的数据，探究社区环境对低收入家庭的长期影响。该实验为部分公共住房家庭提供了迁居至弱势程度更低社区的机会，却未将此资格赋予其余家庭。研究表明，在迁居后的10至15年