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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing

  • Steven D. Levitt
  • Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
American Economic Review
vol. 91, no. 2, May 2001
(pp. 79–84)
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Citation

Levitt, Steven, D., and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. 2001. "Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing." American Economic Review, 91 (2): 79–84. DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.2.79

JEL Classification

  • I38 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
  • R23 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
  • J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity