Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth (2004)
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz
Econometrica, forthcoming Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in highpoverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing vouchers by...
Finance conference, the Harvard Public Finance seminar, and the Harvard Business School (2004)
Jeffrey B. Liebman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Victor Fuchs, Michael Hurd, Emmett Keeler, ...
Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets seminar for comments on an earlier draft. We thank
Opportunity For, D Urban, D E Velopm, Larry Orr, Judith D. Feins, Robin Jacob, ...
www.huduser.org to find this report and others sponsored by
Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment (2000)
L.F. Katz, Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
This paper examines the short-run impacts of a change in residential neighborhood on the well-being of low-income families, using evidence from a program in which eligibility for a housing voucher...
The impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on labor supply and taxpayer compliance / (1996)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1996.
The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System
Martin Feldstein, Jeffrey B Liebman
In this paper we study the distributional impact of a change from the existing pay-as-you-go Social Security system to one that combines both pay-as-you-go and investment-based elements. Such a...
Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System
Because its benefit formula replaces a greater fraction of the lifetime earnings of lower earners than of higher earnings, Social Security is generally thought to be progressive, providing a...
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz, Lisa Sanbonmatsu
We study adult economic and health outcomes in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration, a randomized housing mobility experiment in which families living in highpoverty U.S. public housing...
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON YOUTH
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
We examine the effects of moving out of high-poverty neighborhoods on the outcomes of teenage youth, a population often seen as most at risk from the adverse effects of such neighborhoods. The...
Bullets Don’t Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz
To understand the impact of high-poverty neighborhoods on families, we collected data from participants at the Boston site of HUD?s Moving To Opportunity (MTO) demonstration. MTO randomly assigned...
The Early Impacts of Moving to Opportunity in Boston
Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
This study focuses on 540 households originally living in public housing in high-poverty areas of Boston who participated in HUD’s Moving To Opportunity (MTO) demonstration. Participants were...
The Early Impacts of Moving to Opportunity in Boston
Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
This study focuses on 540 households originally living in public housing in high-poverty areas of Boston who participated in HUD’s Moving To Opportunity (MTO) demonstration. Participants were...
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON YOUTH
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
We examine the effects of moving out of high-poverty neighborhoods on the outcomes of teenage youth, a population often seen as most at risk from the adverse effects of such neighborhoods. The...
The Early Impacts of Moving to Opportunity in Boston
Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
This study focuses on 540 households originally living in public housing in high-poverty areas of Boston who participated in HUD’s Moving To Opportunity (MTO) demonstration. Participants were...
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz, Lisa Sanbonmatsu
We study adult economic and health outcomes in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration, a randomized housing mobility experiment in which families living in highpoverty U.S. public housing...
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON YOUTH
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
We examine the effects of moving out of high-poverty neighborhoods on the outcomes of teenage youth, a population often seen as most at risk from the adverse effects of such neighborhoods. The...
Bullets Don’t Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz
To understand the impact of high-poverty neighborhoods on families, we collected data from participants at the Boston site of HUD?s Moving To Opportunity (MTO) demonstration. MTO randomly assigned...
The Early Impacts of Moving to Opportunity in Boston
Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
This study focuses on 540 households originally living in public housing in high-poverty areas of Boston who participated in HUD’s Moving To Opportunity (MTO) demonstration. Participants were...
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
Jeffrey R Kling, Jeffrey B Liebman, Lawrence F Katz
Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in high-poverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the Moving to...
The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System
Martin Feldstein, Jeffrey B Liebman
In this paper we study the distributional impact of a change from the existing pay-as-you-go Social Security system to one that combines both pay-as-you-go and investment-based elements. Such a...
Capital costs, industrial mix, and the composition of business investment
Yolanda K. Henderson, Jeffrey B. Liebman
Capital ; Corporations - Finance
Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System
Because its benefit formula replaces a greater fraction of the lifetime earnings of lower earners than of higher earnings, Social Security is generally thought to be progressive, providing a...
Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit
Nada Eissa, Jeffrey B. Liebman
In a series of major expansions starting in 1987, the earned income tax credit (EITC) has become a central part of the federal government's anti-poverty strategy. In this paper, we examine the impact...
Are CEOs Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?
Brian J. Hall, Jeffrey B. Liebman
A common view of CEO compensation is that there is essentially no correlation between firm performance and CEO pay. This calls into question an important component of effective corporate governance....
The Taxation of Executive Compensation
Brian J. Hall, Jeffrey B. Liebman
Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the share of executive compensation paid through stock options. In this paper, we examine the extent to which tax policy has influenced...
Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment
Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman
This paper examines the short-run impacts of a change in residential neighborhood on the well-being of low-income families, using evidence from the Moving To Opportunity (MTO) program in which...
The Middle Class Parent Penalty: Child Benefits in the U.S. Tax Code
David T. Ellwood, Jeffrey B. Liebman
Low-income families with children receive large tax benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit, while high income taxpayers receive large tax benefits from dependent exemptions (whose value is...
Martin Feldstein, Jeffrey B. Liebman
This paper, a forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Public Economics, reviews the theoretical and empirical issues dealing with Social Security pensions. The first part of the paper discusses pure...
Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Jeffrey B. Liebman, David W. Wilcox
This paper reviews the course of fiscal policy and Social Security policy during the 1990s. The 1990s witnessed two fundamental changes in U.S. fiscal policy: a dramatic improvement in the current...
Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System
Because its benefit formula replaces a greater fraction of the lifetime earnings of lower earners than of higher earnings, Social Security is generally thought to be progressive, providing However,...
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz
Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in high-poverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the Moving to...
Bullets Don't Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto
Jeffrey Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz
To understand the impact of high-poverty neighborhoods on families, we collected data from participants at the Boston site of HUD's Moving To Opportunity (MTO) demonstration. MTO randomly assigned...
Who are the Ineligible EITC Recipients?
A revised version of this paper appears as "Who are the Ineligible EITC Recipients?" National Tax Journal 53(4) (part 2): 1165-1186. For more information see www.ntanet.org.
Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities
Jeffrey B. Liebman, David G. Seif
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers currently perceive the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security benefits they will receive....