Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Autor/inn/en	Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Kling, Jeffrey R.; Duncan, Greg J.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Titel	Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 41 (2006) 4, S.649-691 (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Mathematics Tests; Housing; Age; Public Housing; Neighborhoods; Educational Vouchers; Poverty; Academic Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterkunft; Alter; Lebensalter; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Armut; Schulleistung
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 more than 5,000 children aged six 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 alone are small. (Contains 9 tables, 1 figure and 18 footnotes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10