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It gave vouchers to help poor families move to better neighborhoods and awarded them on a random basis...
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Based on the earnings records of millions of families that moved with children,
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One was random, the other was not. Culture, both at the family level and above, trumps everything. If you have parents who deeply want for their children to succeed, then even small improvements can be utilized by them to good effect. For parents who suck in general, no amount of free stuff is going to make them better parents. The second study doesn't trump the first, it complements and to a certain degree corroborates it.