Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: Introduction, Overview, and Foundations
1 What Have We Learned about Housing Mobility and Poverty Deconcentration?
John Goering, Judith D. Feins, and Todd M. Richardson
2 Political Origins and Opposition
John Goering
3 Locational Constraint, Housing Counseling, and Successful Lease-Up
Mark Shroder
4 A Cross-Site Analysis of MTO's Locational Impacts
Judith D. Feins
PART II: Research Findings from the Five MTO Sites
5 The Effects of MTO on Educational Opportunities in Baltimore
Helen F. Ladd and Jens Ludwig
6 The Effects of MTO on Children and Parents in Baltimore
Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, and Helen F. Ladd
7 Boston Site Findings
The Early Impacts of Moving to Opportunity
Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Jeffrey B. Liebman
8 New York City Site Findings
The Early Impacts of Moving to Opportunity on Children and Youth
Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
9 Los Angeles Site Findings
Maria Hanratty, Sarah McLanahan, and Becky Pettit
10 New Places, New Faces
An Analysis of Neighborhoods and Social Ties among MTO Movers in Chicago
Emily Rosenbaum, Laura Harris, and Nancy A. Denton
Part III: Research and Policy Implications
11 Do Neighborhoods Matter and Why?
Ingrid Gould Ellen and Margery Austin Turner
12 Neighborhood Poverty, Housing Assistance, and Children's Educational Attainment
Sandra Newman, Joseph Harkness, and Wei-Jun J. Yeung
13 MTO's Impact on Sending and Receiving Neighborhoods
George Galster
14 Comments on Future Research and Housing Policy
John Goering
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
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).
