ERIC Number: EJ750948
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 43
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-166X
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Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Kling, Jeffrey R.; Duncan, Greg J.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Journal of Human Resources, v41 n4 p649-691 Fall 2006
Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on test scores for any age group among more than 5,000 children aged six to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after randomization. Program impacts on school environments were considerably smaller than impacts on neighborhoods, suggesting that achievement-related benefits from improved neighborhood environments alone are small. (Contains 9 tables, 1 figure and 18 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Housing, Age, Public Housing, Neighborhoods, Educational Vouchers, Poverty, Academic Achievement
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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