HKS Affiliated Authors

Jeffrey Liebman Photo
Jeffrey Liebman
Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Social Policy

Additional Authors:

  • Lawrence Katz
  • Ronald Kessler

Excerpt

What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment? Lawrence Katz, Jeffrey Liebman, Ronald Kessler, July 2008, Paper. "Experimental estimates from Moving to Opportunity (MTO) show no significant impacts of moves to lower-poverty neighborhoods on adult economic self-sufficiency four to seven years after random assignment. The authors disagree with Clampet-Lundquist and Massey’s claim that MTO was a weak intervention and therefore uninformative about neighborhood effects. MTO produced large changes in neighborhood environments that improved adult..." Link