Jeffrey Richard Kling is the research director at the

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, and was previously the associate director for economic analysis. Kling is also a faculty research fellow at the

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and a senior investigator for the long-term evaluation of the

Moving to Opportunity Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) was a randomized social experiment sponsored by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the 1990s among 4,600 low-income families with children living in high-poverty pu ...

randomized housing mobility experiment. As of 2025, he is a co-editor of the

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Career

He previously served as deputy director of the Economic Studies Program and Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at

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(2005–09). He also previously served as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and

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(1998–2005), Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993), and assistant to the Chief Economist at

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(1992–93).

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