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Replication Across Eight to Ten Studies

The dosage finding—that moving to better neighborhoods at younger ages yields better outcomes—has been replicated by eight to ten subsequent studies using different methods, including the randomized Moving to Opportunity housing-voucher experiment and Eric Chyn's AER quasi-experiment using exogenous public housing demolitions, all recovering the same age-exposure pattern.

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Raj Chetty

Evidence Quote

there have now been a series of, I would say, eight or 10 replications using different methods, different countries, different data sets that always recover this dosage pattern. So, I feel quite confident

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Raj Chetty on Economic MobilityEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:10 AM

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