Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment

作者：Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, Paul Hirschfield · 发表于：The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 年份：2001 · DOI：10.1162/00335530151144122 · 被引用次数：670 · 研究领域：Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies、Homelessness and Social Issues、Crime Patterns and Interventions

This paper uses data from a randomized housing-mobility experiment to study the effects of relocating families from high- to low-poverty neighborhoods on juvenile crime. Outcome measures come from juvenile arrest records taken from government administrative data. Our findings seem to suggest that providing families with the opportunity to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods reduces violent criminal behavior by teens.