Doctoral Dissertation Research: Estimating Neighborhood Effects on Long-Term Economic Outcomes of Gautreaux Families Using Administrative Earnings Records

Joshua Angrist Jeffrey King国家经济研究局SBR-9530182这项研究将研究社区对数以千计的前公共住房居民的长期劳动力市场影响，这些居民在1976年至1995年期间通过Gautreaux住房计划获得补贴，搬到芝加哥地区的不同社区。居住在非常贫穷的社区与劳动力市场负面结果之间的相关性非常强。问题是，这些劳动力市场的结果在多大程度上是个人低技能和低动机的结果，与邻里效应不同。Gatreaux住房计划以准随机的方式将类似的家庭转移到不同的社区，因此这些家庭中个人的劳动力市场经验可以用来区分个人影响和社区影响。

Joshua Angrist Jeffrey King National Bureau of Economic Research SBR-9530182 This research will examine the long-term labor market effect of neighborhoods on thousands of former public housing residents who received subsidies to move to various neighborhoods in the Chicago area through the Gautreaux housing program from 1976 to 1995. The correlation between residence in a very poor neighborhood and negative labor market outcomes is very strong. The question is to what extent these labor market outcomes are the result of low skills and low motivation of individuals alone as distinct from neighborhood effects. The Gatreaux housing program moved similar families to a variety of neighborhoods in a quasi-random manner, therefore the labor market experiences of the individuals in these families can be used to separate individual effects from neighborhood effects.