Past Scholars | 2010 to 2011

Jens Ludwig

University of Chicago

Ludwig will write a book about how neighborhood environments affect the life chances and well-being of low-income families, using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Moving to Opportunity residential mobility experiment.

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