Jens Ludwig

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Jens Ludwig

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#4284

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Public Policy

#579

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#610

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Bachelors Economics University of Chicago

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Homicide and suicide rates associated with implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. (2000) (282)
Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago* (2015) (276)
The Social Costs of Gun Ownership (2004) (182)
Weighing the “burden of 'acting white'”: Are there race differences in attitudes toward education? (1997) (162)
The Burden of “Acting White”: Do Black Adolescents Disparage Academic Achievement? (2008) (157)
Anti-depressants, suicide, and drug regulation. (2005) (145)
Gun Violence: The Real Costs (2000) (131)
An Experimental Evaluation of a Comprehensive Employment-Oriented Prisoner Re-entry Program (2015) (131)
Evaluating gun policy : effects on crime and violence (2003) (123)
The medical costs of gunshot injuries in the United States. (1999) (117)
Guns in America: Results of a Comprehensive National Survey on Firearms Ownership and Use (1996) (115)
The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago (2014) (97)
Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment (2013) (92)
The gender gap in reporting household gun ownership. (1998) (90)
Does gun prevalence affect teen gun carrying after all (2004) (77)
Criminal records of homicide offenders. (2005) (71)
Aiming for evidence-based gun policy (2006) (70)
Gun Control after Heller: Threats and Sideshows from a Social Welfare Perspective (2009) (62)
The gun debate's new mythical number:How many defensive uses per year? (1997) (52)
BETTER GUN ENFORCEMENT, LESS CRIME (2005) (51)
Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs (2011) (47)
Defensive Gun Uses: New Evidence from a National Survey (1998) (47)
"Culture" and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: The Prevention Paradox (2006) (47)
The Medical Costs of Gunshot Injuries in the United States (2000) (42)
The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program (2020) (40)
The costs of gun violence against children. (2002) (39)
Flawed gun policy research could endanger public safety. (1997) (39)
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Youth (WP-15-01) (2015) (35)
The Economics of Scale-Up (2017) (33)
Some Sources Of Crime Guns In Chicago: Dirty Dealers, Straw Purchasers, And Traffickers (2015) (31)
Economical Crime Control (2010) (24)
Principles for Effective Gun Policy (2004) (23)
Measuring Discrimination in Education: Are Methodologies from Labor and Markets Useful?. (2003) (17)
Improving Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students: Scaling up Individualized Tutorials. Policy Proposal 2016-02. (2016) (11)
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents (2021) (11)
Fact-Free Gun Policy (2003) (11)
Think Before You Act: A New Approach to Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout (2014) (10)
Lessons from a partially controlled field trial (2012) (10)
Body-Worn Cameras in Policing: Benefits and Costs (2021) (8)
UNDERSTANDING GUN VIOLENCE: PUBLIC HEALTH VS. PUBLIC POLICY (2019) (8)
The social costs of gun ownership: a reply to Hayo, Neumeier, and Westphal (2018) (7)
The Limited Impact of the Brady Act Evaluation and Implications (7)
The Effects of the Brady Act on Gun Violence (2003) (7)
Gun Control after Heller: Litigating Against Regulation (2009) (6)
Neighborhood and Community Initiatives (2010) (5)
Guns and Suicide : Correlation or Causation ? (2005) (5)
Economist's Guide to Crime Busting (2012) (5)
Neighborhood Effects on Crime. Evidence from America’s Moving to Opportunity Experiment (2013) (4)
Webster and Colleagues Respond: No Proof That Shall-Issue Laws Reduce Violence (1998) (3)
Leveraging Learning: The Evolving Role of Federal Policy in Education Research. (2013) (3)
Option Awareness: The Psychology of What We Consider (2016) (3)
Policing and Management (2022) (2)
Scope Challenges to Social Impact (2021) (2)
An Experimental Evaluation of a Comprehensive Employment-Oriented Prisoner Re-entry Program (2014) (2)
Implementation as Intervention: Can Changing Management Practices Strengthen Policing in Chicago? (2019) (2)
RESPONSE TO COUNTERPOINT: VIOLENCE ITSELF IS A ROOT CAUSE OF VIOLENCE (2019) (2)
The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago (WP-14-03) (2014) (2)
Willingness-to-Pay to Reduce Gun Violence (2002) (2)
Effects on Crime and Violence (2017) (2)
EVALUATING GUN‐POLICY EVALUATIONS* (2003) (1)
Violence and Public Health Firearm Prevalence and the Risk of Suicide (2001) (1)
del Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs: Economical Crime Control (2010) (1)
Experimental Criminology: Using Regression Discontinuity Designs in Crime Research (2013) (1)
Gun Violence and Life in America (2002) (1)
Elusive Facts About Guns Violence: Where Good Surveys Go Bad (2014) (1)
Scale-Up Experiments ∗ (2018) (1)
The social costs of gun ownership: a reply to Hayo, Neumeier, and Westphal (2018) (0)
Studying Properties of the Population (2021) (0)
OP-JLAJ190001 1..62 ++ (2019) (0)
How Guns Matter (2002) (0)
HOUSEHOLD GUN OWNERSHIP. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (0)
Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm. Working Papers Series. SAN05-04. (2005) (0)
Effective Imposition of Fines (2013) (0)
briefcase moving to opportunity (2015) (0)
Evaluating Lubbock County’s Behavioral Therapy Program to Reduce Violence Among Inmates (2022) (0)
Principles for Effective Gun Control (2004) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2004) (0)
The Impact of a Comprehensive Prisoner Re-entry Program on Employment and Recidivism in the United States (2019) (0)
Ludwig et al. Respond (1999) (0)
The Economics of Scale-Up (WP-17-22) (2017) (0)
Poverty Deconcentration and the Prevention of Crime (2012) (0)
ANTI-DEPRESSANTS AND SUICIDE January 23 , 2008 (2008) (0)
Avoidance and Prevention (2002) (0)
ABSTRACT Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data * (2010) (0)
Drug Users in Prison? (2013) (0)
Household gun ownership [2] (multiple letters) (1999) (0)
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Crime Policy (Seminar Transcript) (2011) (0)
Litigating against Regulation (2012) (0)
The Mythical Importance of Productivity Losses (2002) (0)
0979-08 Ch08 (2003) (0)
Myths about Defensive Gun Use and Permissive Gun Carry Laws (2000) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PREVENTING YOUTH VIOLENCE AND DROPOUT: A RANDOMIZED FIELD EXPERIMENT (2013) (0)
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Crime Policy (Presentation Video) (2011) (0)
Increasing the reach of promising dropout prevention programs: Examining the tradeoffs between scale and effectiveness (2018) (0)
Lessons from a partially controlled field trial (2012) (0)