John Goering is a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and a member of the doctoral faculty in political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before joining CUNY, he helped design and implement MTO as well as prepare the evaluation framework for the demonstration while in the Office of Research at HUD.
Judith D. Feins, a principal associate at Abt Associates, directed the implementation of the MTO demonstration under contract to HUD and is currently directing the interim evaluation of MTO. She conducts research on public housing and housing mobility.
About the Contributors
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is also director of the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College and codirector of the Institute for Child and Family Policy at Columbia University.
Nancy A. Denton is an associate professor of sociology and director of graduate studies at SUNY Albany, where she is also a research associate at the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis.
Greg J. Duncan is professor of education and social policy and a faculty associate in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is director of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
Ingrid Gould Ellen is an assistant professor of public policy and urban planning at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. Before joining Wayne State, he served as director of housing research at the Urban Institute.
Maria Hanratty is an associate professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Minnesota Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. She also served as senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Joseph Harkness is the research statistician for the Housing Research Group of the Institute for Policy Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. His recent work focuses on housing and social welfare policy.
Laura Harris is a research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.
Lawrence F. Katz is a professor of economics at Harvard University, a research associate of NBER, and editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He previously served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor.
Jeffrey R. Kling is assistant professor of economics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an NBER faculty research fellow. He previously served as assistant to the chief economist at the World Bank and special assistant to the secretary at the U.S. Department of Labor.
Helen F. Ladd, professor of public policy studies and economics in the Sanford Institute of Duke University, also directs the graduate program in public policy. She is the author or editor of several recent books on educational accountability, school finance, and school choice.
Tama Leventhal is a research scientist at the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Jeffrey B. Liebman is associate professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and an NBER faculty research fellow. He recently served in the White House as special assistant to the president for economic policy.
Jens Ludwig is associate professor of public policy at Georgetown University and a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research and the Brookings Institution.
Sara McLanahan is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. She directs the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and is an associate of the Office of Population Research.
Sandra Newman is professor of policy studies at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Institute for Policy Studies. She holds joint appointments with the departments of Sociology, Geography, and Environmental Engineering, and Health Policy and Management.
Becky Pettit is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Washington and an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology and the Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences. Her research includes studying the effects of residential mobility during childhood and poverty and inequality.
Todd M. Richardson, a social science analyst at HUD, is currently the government manager for the Moving to Opportunity Interim Evaluation.
Emily Rosenbaum is an associate professor of sociology and demography at Fordham University in New York and a research fellow at NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
Mark Shroder, an economist with HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research, has been involved with MTO since its inception.
Margery Austin Turner directs the Center on Metropolitan Housing and Communities at the Urban Institute. From 1993 through 1996 she served as deputy assistant secretary for research at HUD.
Wei-Jun J. Yeung is a research scientist at the Center for Advanced Social Research and associate professor of sociology at New York University (NYU). Before joining NYU, she was at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research as a co-principal investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
Choosing a Better Life? Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment, Edited by John Goering and Judith D. Feins, is available in paperback from the Urban Institute Press (6" x 9", 440 pages, ISBN 0-87766-713-6, $34.50).
