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Incarceration Length, Employment, and Earnings by Kling, Jeffrey R.

“…This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospects of individuals after their release from prison. I…”
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Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults by Ludwig, Jens, Duncan, Greg J., Gennetian, Lisa A., Katz, Lawrence F., Kessler, Ronald C., Kling, Jeffrey R., Sanbonmatsu, Lisa

“…Nearly 9 million Americans live in extreme-poverty neighborhoods, places that also tend to be racially segregated and dangerous. Yet, the effects on the…”
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Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations by Ludwig, Jens, Kling, Jeffrey R., Mullainathan, Sendhil

“…Randomized controlled trials are increasingly used to evaluate policies. How can we make these experiments as useful as possible for policy purposes? We argue…”
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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity by Ludwig, Jens, Duncan, Greg J., Gennetian, Lisa A., Katz, Lawrence F., Kessler, Ronald C., Kling, Jeffrey R., Sanbonmatsu, Lisa

“…We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment. This…”
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Moving Teenagers Out of High-Risk Neighborhoods: How Girls Fare Better than Boys by CLAMPET-LUNDQUIST, Susan, EDIN, Kathryn, KLING, Jeffrey R, DUNCAN, Greg J

“…Moving to Opportunity (MTO) offered public housing residents the opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. Several years later, boys in the…”
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What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment? by Ludwig, Jens, Liebman, Jeffrey B, Kling, Jeffrey R, Duncan, Greg J, Katz, Lawrence F, Kessler, Ronald C, Sanbonmatsu, Lisa

“…Experimental estimates from Moving to Opportunity (MTO) show no significant impacts of moves to lower-poverty neighborhoods on adult economic self-sufficiency…”
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Neighborhood effects on use of African-American Vernacular English by Rickford, John R., Duncan, Greg J., Gennetian, Lisa A., Gou, Ray Yun, Greene, Rebecca, Katz, Lawrence F., Kessler, Ronald C., Kling, Jeffrey R., Sanbonmatsu, Lisa, Sanchez-Ordoñez, Andres E., Sciandra, Matthew, Thomas, Ewart, Ludwig, Jens

“…African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is systematic, rooted in history, and important as an identity marker and expressive resource for its speakers. In…”
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Is Crime Contagious? by Ludwig, Jens, Kling, Jeffrey R.

“…Understanding whether criminal behavior is “contagious” is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social…”
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Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects by Kling, Jeffrey R, Liebman, Jeffrey B, Katz, Lawrence F

“…Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in high-poverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing…”
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Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment by Ludwig, Jens, Sanbonmatsu, Lisa, Gennetian, Lisa, Adam, Emma, Duncan, Greg J, Katz, Lawrence F, Kessler, Ronald C, Kling, Jeffrey R, Lindau, Stacy Tessler, Whitaker, Robert C, McDade, Thomas W

“…In this study, women with children were enabled to move from poor neighborhoods to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. The moves were associated with…”
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COMPARISON FRICTION: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM MEDICARE DRUG PLANS by Kling, Jeffrey R., Mullainathan, Sendhil, Shafir, Eldar, Vermeulen, Lee C., Wrobel, Marian V.

“…Consumers need information to compare alternatives for markets to function efficiently. Recognizing this, public policies often pair competition with easy…”
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Why Don't People Insure Late-Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the under-Annuitization Puzzle by Brown, Jeffrey R., Kling, Jeffrey R., Mullainathan, Sendhil, Wrobel, Marian V.

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Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence by Kessler, Ronald C, Duncan, Greg J, Gennetian, Lisa A, Katz, Lawrence F, Kling, Jeffrey R, Sampson, Nancy A, Sanbonmatsu, Lisa, Zaslavsky, Alan M, Ludwig, Jens

“…IMPORTANCE: Youth in high-poverty neighborhoods have high rates of emotional problems. Understanding neighborhood influences on mental health is crucial for…”
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Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment by Kling, Jeffrey R., Ludwig, Jens, Katz, Lawrence F.

“…The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous…”
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Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment by Sanbonmatsu, Lisa, Kling, Jeffrey R, Duncan, Greg J, Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne

“…Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although…”
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The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households by Mendenhall, Ruby, Edin, Kathryn, Crowley, Susan, Sykes, Jennifer, Tach, Laura, Kriz, Katrin, Kling, Jeffrey R.

“…The annual receipt of large tax refunds, primarily due to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), provides households with unusual opportunities to pay old bills…”
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Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults by Harding, David J., Sanbonmatsu, Lisa, Duncan, Greg J., Gennetian, Lisa A., Katz, Lawrence F., Kessler, Ronald C., Kling, Jeffrey R., Sciandra, Matthew, Ludwig, Jens

“…Although nonexperimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by results from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO)…”
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Measuring Interjudge Sentencing Disparity: Before and After the Federal Sentencing Guidelines by Anderson, James M., Kling, Jeffrey R., Stith, Kate

“…This paper evaluates the impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on interjudge sentencing disparity, which is defined as the differences in average nominal…”
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EVALUATING CONTRADICTORY EXPERIMENTAL AND NON-EXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATES OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC OUTCOMES FOR ADULTS by Harding, David J, Sanbonmatsu, Lisa, Duncan, Greg J, Gennetian, Lisa A, Katz, Lawrence F, Kessler, Ronald C, Kling, Jeffrey R, Sciandra, Matthew, Ludwig, Jens

“…Although non-experimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by results from the Moving to Opportunity…”
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Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment by Katz, Lawrence F., Kling, Jeffrey R., Liebman, Jeffrey B.

“…We examine short-run impacts of changes in residential neighborhoods on the well-being of families residing in high-poverty public housing projects who…”
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