In this article, we review the evidence on the effects of poverty and low income on children's
development and well-being. We argue that poverty is an important indicator of societal and …

The literature on neighborhood effects frequently is evaluated or interpreted in relation to the
question,“Do neighborhoods matter?” We argue that this question has had a …

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes?
Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …

We make only one point in this article. Every quantitative study must be able to answer the
question: what is your estimand? The estimand is the target quantity—the purpose of the …

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college
attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than 7 million families …

The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas
and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 …

The contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of
government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation …

Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families
housing vouchers to move from high-poverty housing projects to lower-poverty …

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an
important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost fifty years later, residential …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …