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Jens Ludwig is a distinguished professor and director of the Crime Lab and Education Lab at the University of Chicago. He studies how behavioral science and data science can solve social problems, such as gun violence, crime, and education.
Jens Otto Ludwig (born 1968 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a University of Chicago economist whose research focuses on social policy, particularly urban issues such as poverty, crime, and education.
Jens Ludwig is a social scientist who studies how to solve social problems using behavioral science and data science. He is the founder and director of the Crime Lab and the Education Lab, which work with government agencies to implement evidence-based strategies and policies.
- National Research Council Committee on Strengthening Benefit-Cost Methodology for the Evaluation of Early Childhood Interventions
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Editorial Board, Criminology. Research Fellow, IZA Bonn Non-resident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution Editorial Board, Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Policy Council (elected), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan. Editorial Board,...
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting (2013, 2014), American Bar Foundation, American Economic Association, American Education Research Association, American Enterprise Institute, American Society of Criminology, American Sociological Association, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Beijing Un...
American Economic Review, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Annals of Epidemiology, Archives of General Psychiatry, Criminology, Developmental Psychology, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics of Educatio...
Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes—a randomized social experiment. J Ludwig, L Sanbonmatsu, L Gennetian, E Adam, GJ Duncan, LF Katz, ... New England journal of medicine 365 (16), 1509-1519. , 2011. 1135. 2011. Neighborhood effects on crime for female and male youth: Evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment.
Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, and co-director of the Education Lab.
Jens Ludwig is a professor of public policy at the University of Chicago and a senior fellow at Brookings. He studies education, crime, and social policy, and leads the Center for Public Safety and Justice.
