Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth: Evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment
Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth: Evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment
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DOI：
10.1162/0033553053327470
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发表时间：
2005-02-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
Katz, LF
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作者：
Kling, JR;Ludwig, J;Katz, LF
Moving to Opportunity(MTO)示范通过随机摇号向五个城市的公共住房居民分配住房代金券。我们使用MTO产生的居住地点的外生变化来估计社区对青少年犯罪和犯罪的影响。与对照组相比，搬迁到较低贫困地区的提议减少了年轻女性因暴力和财产犯罪而被捕的人数。对于男性来说，搬迁的提议减少了因暴力犯罪而被捕的人数，至少在短期内是这样，但却增加了问题行为和财产犯罪的逮捕人数。治疗效果的性别差异似乎反映了来自弱势背景的男性和女性青年如何适应和应对类似的新邻里环境的差异。
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.