EconomicsEducationSociology

Alanna Bjorklund-Young

2016.4.2Journal of School Choice

DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2016.1172911

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Exposure to better neighborhoods improves educational outcomes for disadvantaged children, according to new evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.

Abstract

That childhood poverty has a negative effect on educational outcomes is well established. Children from low-income families are only one third as likely to complete high school as their more fortun...

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BJORKLUND-YOUNG, Alanna. The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the moving to opportunity experiment, by r. chetty, n. hendren, and l. f. katz. Journal of School Choice, 2016, 10: 276–279.