RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement JF Journal of Human Resources JO J Hum Resour FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 649 OP 691 DO 10.3368/jhr.XLI.4.649 VO XLI IS 4 A1 Lisa Sanbonmatsu A1 Jeffrey R. Kling A1 Greg J. Duncan A1 Jeanne Brooks-Gunn YR 2006 UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/4/649.abstract AB Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on test scores for any age group among more than 5,000 children aged six to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after randomization. Program impacts on school environments were considerably smaller than impacts on neighborhoods, suggesting that achievement-related benefits from improved neighborhood environments alone are small.