Composition or Context: Using Transportability to Understand Drivers of Site Differences in a Large-scale Housing Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Moving To Opportunity (MTO) experiment manipulated neighborhood context by randomly assigning housing vouchers to volunteers living in public housing to use to move to lower poverty neighborhoods in five US cities. This random assignment overcomes confounding limitations that challenge other neighborhood studies. However, differences in MTO's effects across the five cities have been largely ignored. Such differences could be due to population composition (e.g., differences in the racial/ethnic distribution) or to context (e.g., differences in the economy).

Methods

Using a nonparametric omnibus test and a multiply robust, semiparametric estimator for transportability, we assessed the extent to which differences in individual-level compositional characteristics

SUBMITTER: Rudolph KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5792307 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature