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Mark Schroeder

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Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

134.278

Hasn't been an experiment quite like this ever before.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

153.45

A big part of the program had always been unlimited choice of neighborhood.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

196.296

I couldn't believe the public housing authorities would go along with inducing turnover among their tenants.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

236.931

If you want to really know whether this works or not, you need an experiment.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

249.46

The only randomized experiment that tests the impact of neighborhood on people's lives.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

266.73

Almost everything about moving to Opportunity has been a surprise, not only to me, but to practically everybody else.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

373.838

There were some people who were praying that Literally praying they would be in the regular voucher group because they did not want to have to find another place that far away, either socially or physically.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

399.895

Only like number three or four was better schools for my children, better jobs for me. Those were way down there.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

413.331

I think they didn't buy into the hypothesis we were testing.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

423.643

I have to say that I wasn't that surprised. We're asking them to do something that people were not doing.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

533.311

Impacts we expected in many ways didn't happen. Impacts that we didn't expect that did happen.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

544.101

Which we certainly did not expect.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

552.852

We saw impacts on diabetes, obesity.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

586.005

We did not find any impacts on children's test scores. We did not find any impacts on grown-ups' earnings.

Planet Money

Moving to the American dream? (update)

89.93

Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.