Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
利用“搬向机会”住房流动性实验数据，通过识别邻里选择模型中未观测成分的新策略，估计了邻里质量对成人劳动市场结果的局部平均处理效应，发现效应显著且集中于全国邻里质量分布最低的10%区域。
Abstract This paper estimates neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying transition-specific effects that exploits identification of the unobserved component of a neighborhood choice model. Estimated local average treatment effects (LATEs) are large, result from moves between the first and second deciles of the national distribution of neighborhood quality, and pertain to a subpopulation of nine percent of program participants.