Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth
Subtitle: evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment
By: Jeffrey R. Kling, Jens Ludwig, Lawrence F. Katz.
Contributors: Ludwig, Jens; Katz, Lawrence F.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10777; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10777.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Crime prevention -- Youth participation.; Juvenile delinquency -- Prevention.; Housing policy -- United States -- Evaluation.; Low-income housing -- United States.
Description: "The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities.  We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects on youth crime and delinquency.  The offer to relocate to lower-poverty areas reduces arrests among female youth for violent and property crimes, relative to a control group.  For males the offer to relocate reduces arrests for violent crime, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests.  The gender difference in treatment effects seems to reflect differences in how male and female youths from disadvantaged backgrounds adapt and respond to similar new neighborhood environments"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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