Nathan Hendren
Appearances
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
It didn't strike me as the most, what would have been the most effective going in.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
More than half of the families end up using the voucher in a neighborhood that has high upward mobility.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
Before this, I was working mainly with survey data sets, where if you had 10,000 people in your data set, you were quite excited. In this data, you're dealing with millions.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
And what that allows you to do is really kind of put a sharp knife into your analysis and really uncover patterns.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
So Raj and I were both working away at the Internal Revenue Service.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
The longer a child spent in a neighborhood with higher rates of upper mobility, the higher their outcomes were in adulthood.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
You'd actually see higher outcomes on average for the four-year-old relative to the eight-year-old.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
At that point, we were of the mindset of, well, geez, we should probably get the MTO data.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
Back in 2008, you wouldn't have seen it. There just weren't enough young children into the labor market where you'd really be able to say, ah, it looks like there's an effect here. But wait five years, and all of a sudden, you can really start to see these patterns emerge.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
We're four percentage points more likely to go to college.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
You could kind of feel that we had something that was going to change the way people thought about neighborhoods and change the way people thought about inequality of opportunity in the United States.
Planet Money
Moving to the American dream? (update)
We got a lot of emails from people who were eager to think about what we should be doing to use housing policy as a way to think about improving upward mobility for children who are most disadvantaged.