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Jens Ludwig
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy; Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab; Co-Director of the Education Lab
Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab. He also serves as a non-resident senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and co-director of the NBER's working group on the economics of crime. His research focuses on social policy, particularly...
Related Working Papers
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May 15, 2024Predicting Police Misconduct
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Apr 9, 2024Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job? The Effects of Income on Crime
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Feb 5, 2024The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms
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Mar 13, 2023Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation
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Feb 20, 2023Automating Automaticity: How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias
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Mar 21, 2022Policing and Management
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Sep 20, 2021Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System
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Mar 28, 2021Body-Worn Cameras in Policing: Benefits and Costs
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Mar 10, 2021Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
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Feb 16, 2021Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Non-Experimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults
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Related Insights
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Jun 4, 2024Predicting Police Misconduct
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Apr 18, 2024Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job? The Effects of Income on Crime
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Feb 21, 2024The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms
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Mar 21, 2023Social Media Algorithms: How You’re Curating a Biased News Feed
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Mar 14, 2023Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation
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Related News
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Jun 12, 2024Machine-gun conversion device dubbed ‘Glock switches’ taking violence to the ‘next level’: Experts
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May 25, 2024Trump’s Stop-and-Frisk Agenda
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May 15, 2024Jens Ludwig: More spending won’t be enough to reduce Chicago’s gun violence
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Apr 3, 2024National study finds in-school, high-dosage tutoring can reverse pandemic-era learning loss
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Mar 24, 2024Jens Ludwig and Jacob Miller: We are seeing a lethal shift in America’s gun violence crisis
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Feb 11, 2024Jens Ludwig: Pandemic learning loss is Chicago’s next big crisis
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Feb 8, 2024A New Way To Address Gun Violence You’ve Never Heard Of | Opinion
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Dec 11, 2023A Rose-Colored Recovery: Study Says Parents Don’t Grasp Scope of COVID’s Academic Damage
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Oct 29, 2023America’s schoolchildren need an ‘Operation Warp Speed’
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Aug 19, 2023Murder rates are falling in a majority of American cities
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Jul 4, 2023A Year After July 4 Parade Shooting, Some Americans Rethink Big Gatherings
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Jun 17, 2023Rachel Graber and Jens Ludwig: Here’s how Chicago can better connect domestic violence victims with services
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Apr 4, 2023Jens Ludwig: Public safety inequality is growing in Chicago and North America
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Feb 16, 2023Opinion: To combat gun violence, the US must overhaul its social safety net
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Feb 13, 2023After Four Turbulent Years, Lori Lightfoot Seeks a Second Term as Chicago’s Mayor
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Jan 18, 2023The Dangers of ‘Long COVID Learning Loss’ And How To Fix It | Opinion
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Jan 17, 2023The scion of one of Chicago’s richest families is taking on the city’s crime problems
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Aug 23, 2022AP-NORC poll: Most in US say they want stricter gun laws
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Jul 15, 2022As violent crime in Chicago soared, arrests fell to historic lows
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May 1, 2022Opinion: The ‘Cruelest Month’ is Behind Us
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Dec 2, 2021Demand solutions to gun violence
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Oct 11, 2021Op-ed: New York and Los Angeles got their gun violence under control. Why can’t Chicago do the same?
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Jun 18, 2021Data Points: How the pandemic has accelerated carjackings in Chicago
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Jun 14, 2021All Bangor police officers will now be wearing body cameras
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Jun 12, 2021One possible cause of the 2020 murder increase: More guns
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May 27, 2021The great debate on gun violence
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May 23, 2021What the evidence says about police body-cameras
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May 8, 2021Murders Are Rising the Most in a Few Isolated Precincts of Major Cities
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Apr 26, 2021Study: Body-Worn Camera Research Shows Drop In Police Use Of Force
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Apr 13, 2021Biden’s gun actions could have a positive, if limited, impact, experts say
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