Bergman, Peter et al
Creating moves to opportunity: Experimental evidence on barriers to neighborhood choice - The American Economic Review - 114(5), May, 2024: p.1281-1337
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.- Reproduced
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20200407
Low-income families, Housing
Creating moves to opportunity: Experimental evidence on barriers to neighborhood choice - The American Economic Review - 114(5), May, 2024: p.1281-1337
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.- Reproduced
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20200407
Low-income families, Housing