Prior experimental housing mobility interventions (Gautreaux Project and Moving to Opportunity) linked moving from higher-poverty to lower-poverty areas with benefits in children's education, behavioral, and health outcomes¶

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q2 i? Findings from the Gautreaux Project and Moving to Opportunity mobility interventions have linked moving from higher poverty to lower poverty areas with benefits in children's education, behavioral, and health outcomes. → Roy 2014

Evidence¶

Roy 2014¶

Roy, A. L., McCoy, D. C., & Raver, C. C. (2014). Instability Versus Quality: Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Poverty, and Children's Self-Regulation. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036984

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This is background literature cited in the article's introduction, reported as the article attributes it (citing Kaufman & Rosenbaum, 1992; Kling, Liebman, & Katz, 2007). The article describes these as two of the most well studied mobility interventions. No effect sizes are printed, so impact is null.

"findings from two of the most well studied mobility interventions, the Gautreaux Project and Moving to Opportunity, have linked moving from higher poverty to lower poverty areas with benefits in children's education, behavioral, and health outcomes"

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