Jens Ludwig

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Jens Ludwig is affiliated with the following schools: Rutgers University, University of Chicago, Georgetown University, Duke University

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According to Wikipedia, Jens Otto Ludwig is a University of Chicago economist whose research focuses on social policy, particularly urban issues such as poverty, crime, and education. He is McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Co-Director of the university's Urban Education and Crime Labs.

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Jens Ludwig 's Published Works

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Published Works

Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (2005) (1047)
Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment (2004) (810)
Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes--a randomized social experiment. (2011) (794)
Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment (2001) (707)
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions (2017) (697)
Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults (2012) (608)
Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education (2013) (569)
Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment (2005) (490)
Prediction Policy Problems. (2015) (433)
Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity (2013) (376)
The Endogeneity Problem in Developmental Studies (2004) (304)
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations (2011) (248)
The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery (2008) (209)
Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms (2018) (200)
What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment? (2009) (179)
Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989-2000 (2007) (171)
Converging Evidence for Neighborhood Effects on Children's Test Scores: An Experimental, Quasi-experimental, and Observational Comparison* (2010) (164)
Concealed-gun-carrying laws and violent crime: evidence from state panel data (1998) (164)
Is Crime Contagious? (2006) (161)
What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment?1 (2008) (143)
Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning (2016) (136)
Long‐Term Effects of Head Start on Low‐Income Children (2008) (133)
Associations of housing mobility interventions for children in high-poverty neighborhoods with subsequent mental disorders during adolescence. (2014) (132)
Underground Gun Markets (2005) (129)
Reducing Poverty through Preschool Interventions (2007) (128)
Urban Poverty and Educational Outcomes (2001) (120)
The Benefits and Costs of Residential Mobility Programmes for the Poor (2002) (112)
The Selective Labels Problem: Evaluating Algorithmic Predictions in the Presence of Unobservables (2017) (111)
The Economic Costs of Poverty in the United States: Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor. Discussion Paper No. 1327-07. (2007) (107)
The economic costs of childhood poverty in the United States (2008) (101)
The Impact of Housing Assistance on Child Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Lottery (2015) (98)
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children (2008) (98)
Low-Income Housing Policy (2015) (87)
Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good? (2011) (80)
The Long-Term Effects of Moving to Opportunity on Youth Outcomes (2012) (80)
Policing Crime Guns (2003) (76)
The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime (2009) (76)
Federal Housing Assistance, Residential Relocation, and Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Baltimore (1997) (74)
Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors (2000) (63)
Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap (2007) (57)
The costs of crime (2010) (57)
Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment (2000) (56)
The Puzzling Case of School Resources and Student Achievement (1999) (55)
Housing mobility programs and economic self-sufficiency: Evidence from a randomized experiment (2005) (54)
The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality (2011) (50)
The Silence of the Lambdas: Deterring Incapacitation Research (2007) (50)
The Long-Term Effects of Moving to Opportunity on Adult Health and Economic Self-Sufficiency (2012) (49)
Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science (2021) (44)
Algorithms as discrimination detectors (2020) (44)
Information and inner city educational attainment (1999) (42)
Success by Ten: Intervening Early, Often, and Effectively in the Education of Young Children. Discussion Paper 2007-02. (2007) (37)
An Economic Approach to Regulating Algorithms (2020) (34)
Neighborhood effects on use of African-American Vernacular English (2015) (33)
School-to-Work Programs in the United States: A Multi-Firm Case Study of Training, Benefits, and Costs (2000) (31)
Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment. JCPR Working Paper. (2000) (31)
The Effects of MTO on Educational Opportunities in Baltimore: Early Evidence (1998) (30)
Human Capital Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Lottery (2014) (28)
An Economic Perspective on Algorithmic Fairness (2020) (27)
A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies (2022) (25)
Gun Self-Defense and Deterrence (2000) (25)
The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime. NBER Working Paper No. 15380. (2009) (24)
The Benefits and Costs of Head Stai and commentaries (2007) (21)
An overview of moving to opportunity a random assignment housing mobility study in five U.S. Cities (2010) (20)
Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors. Occasional Paper. (2000) (19)
Machine Learning Tests for Effects on Multiple Outcomes (2017) (16)
Reducing gun violence in America. (2013) (16)
Family Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Crime (2010) (15)
The Mobility Bank: Increasing Residential Mobility to Boost Economic Mobility (2010) (15)
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System (2021) (13)
Reforming Housing Assistance (2019) (13)
Youth Criminal Behavior In The Moving To Opportunity Experiment (2004) (11)
Do Prison Sentence Enhancements Reduce Gun Crime? The Case of Project Exile (2002) (11)
Augmenting Pre-Analysis Plans with Machine Learning (2019) (11)
Crime policy and informal social control (2011) (11)
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children. NBER Working Paper No. 14550. (2008) (11)
Neighborhoods and Peers in the Production of Schooling (2010) (9)
Can the Federal Government Improve Education Research? (2005) (6)
Social Policy: Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluationsa (2017) (6)
Housing Vouchers and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (1999) (6)
Why Concentrated Poverty Matters (2013) (5)
ADVANCES IN BIG DATA RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS Algorithmic Fairness (2018) (5)
Managing Pretrial Misconduct: An Experimental Evaluation of HOPE Pretrial (2019) (5)
Algorithmic Behavioral Science: Machine Learning as a Tool for Scientific Discovery (2022) (5)
THE PRISON BOOM & THE LACK OF BLACK PROGRESS AFTER (2013) (5)
Effects of COPS Office Funding on Sworn Force Levels, Crime, and Arrests: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (2017) (5)
Chapter 4 – Social Policy: Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluationsa (2017) (4)
The Great Unknown: Does the Black-White Test-Score Gap Narrow or Widen through the School Years? It Depends on How You Measure. (Check the Facts) (2003) (4)
Notice of Retraction and Replacement: Kessler RC, et al. Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence. JAMA. 2014;311(9):937-947. (2016) (4)
Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults (2021) (4)
Mechanism Experiments and Policy (2011) (4)
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children. Discussion Paper No. 1352-08. (2008) (4)
PROGRAM ON HOUSING AND URBAN POLICY (2000) (4)
Long-term effects of neighborhood environments on low-income families: a summary of results from the Moving to Opportunity experiment (2012) (3)
Intervening Early, Often, and Effectively in the Education of Young Children (2007) (3)
Chapter 10. An Overview of Moving to Opportunity: A Random Assignment Housing Mobility Study in Five U.S. Cities (2011) (1)
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. By Robert J. Sampson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. vii+534. $27.50. (2013) (1)
Housing and neighborhoods and a new national household panel (2015) (1)
Chapter 3. Educational Interventions: Their Effects on the Achievement of Poor Children (2011) (1)
Supplementary Material for Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults (2012) (1)
Improving educational outcomes for poor children 2 (2009) (1)
Improving the life chances of disadvantaged children (2010) (1)
Gun Crime and Gun Control: The Hawaiian Experience (2005) (1)
Social Policy Report Giving Child and Youth Development Knowledge Away (2007) (1)
419 9 Family Income , Neighborhood Poverty , and Crime (2013) (0)
What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity (2008) (0)
Improving Life Chances of Disadvantaged Youth: Testing Best-Practice Academic vs. Non-Academic Supports Through a Large-Scale Randomized Control Trial in Chicago (2013) (0)
Measuring Discrimination in Education: Are Methodologies from Labor and Markets Useful? (2003) (0)
Competition and Telephone Penetration: An International Statistical Comparison (1997) (0)
T HE R ECON A PPROACH : A N EW D IRECTION FOR M ACHINE L EARNING IN C RIMINAL L AW (2022) (0)
2. Child Development (2019) (0)
Forthcoming in Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2005 CAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IMPROVE EDUCATION RESEARCH (2005) (0)
Is Crime Contagious? by Jeffrey R. Kling, Princeton University and NBER (2005) (0)
URBAN POVERTY AND JUVENILE CRIME : EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED HOUSING-MOBILITY EXPERIMENT * draft date : May 12 , 2000 (0)
Machine Learning and Public Policy (2019) (0)
School Spending and Student Achievement: Using Specification Tests to Eliminate Inconsistent Estimators (1996) (0)
Does Head Start Improve Long-Term Outcomes? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (2004) (0)
SITE SELECTION BIAS IN PROGRAM EVALUATION Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation (2014) (0)
Call for Papers: Special Issue of the German Economic Review on The Economics of Crime (2011) (0)
Multigenerational influences on child development. (2020) (0)
MTO: A residential relocation demonstration program in the United States (1999) (0)
Special Issue on the Economics of Crime: Editorial (2012) (0)
Acknowledgment of Extraordinary Obligations (2012) (0)
Augmenting Pre-Analysis Plans with Machine Learning Online Appendix (2019) (0)
Automating Automaticity: How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias (2023) (0)
The Great Unknown. (2003) (0)
Replication data for: Algorithmic Fairness (2019) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT WE TEACH ABOUT RACE AND GENDER: REPRESENTATION IN IMAGES AND TEXT OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS (2021) (0)
MECHANISM EXPERIMENTS FOR CRIME POLICY (2013) (0)
Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration. By Ingrid Gould Ellen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 240. $39.95 (cloth). (2001) (0)
Long-term effects of the Moving to Opportunity residential mobility experiment on crime and delinquency (2013) (0)
WORKING PAPER #510 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SECTION PRINCETON UNIVERSITY APRIL 2006 IS CRIME CONTAGIOUS? (2006) (0)

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