For the Weekend...

Must-Read: Huh. It now looks like the huge benefits that got us excited back in the "moving to opportunity" policy days may have been an underestimate:

Eric Chyn: Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children: "This paper provides new evidence on the effects of moving out of disadvantaged neighborhoods...

...on the long-run economic outcomes of children.... Public housing demolitions in Chicago... forced households to relocate to private market housing using vouchers.... Compar[ing] adult outcomes of children displaced by demolition to their peers who lived in nearby public housing that was not demolished[,] displaced children are 9 percent more likely to be employed and earn 16 percent more as adults...

https://owenzidar.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/moved-to-opportunity-the-long-run-effect-of-public-housing-demolition-on-labor-market-outcomes-of-children/

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