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Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty?The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s.

Our primary results also confirmed the findings of our earlier quasi-experimental study. Interviews of households living near the different lots and an analysis of crime data before and after the interventions showed that those living near remediated lots (either fully greened or just cleaned and maintained) were less concerned about their personal

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the largest and best-known example of this to date is the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study. The MTO study is a five-city RCT started by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s. Some 4,600 very low-income families in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: an

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A place-based intervention that leads to the greater desirability of a place—such as the expansion of transit, the greening of small park spaces, or the creating of a business improvement district—could also foster new housing or condominium developments, which would then increase the population in an area. Yet if an area doesn’t have a school syst

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