Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment. NBER Working Paper No. 11909

Autor/inn/en	Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Kling, Jeffrey R.; Duncan, Greg J.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
Titel	Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment. NBER Working Paper No. 11909
Quelle	(2006), (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Mathematics Achievement; Reading Achievement; Scores; Housing; Public Housing; Poverty; Neighborhoods; Educational Vouchers; Academic Achievement; Student Mobility; Achievement Gains + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Leseleistung; Unterkunft; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Armut; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Schulleistung; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung
Abstract	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 over 5000 children ages 6 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 are alone small. (Author).
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