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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Economics and Finance D-index 55 Citations 15,909 181 World Ranking 656 National Ranking 438

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Microeconomics
  • Poverty

Jens Ludwig mainly focuses on Moving to Opportunity, Demographic economics, Poverty, Injury prevention and Mental health. His Moving to Opportunity research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Psychological intervention, Public economics, Finance, Criminology and Social experiment. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Demography, Percentage point, Law enforcement and Gerontology.

His Demographic economics study frequently draws connections between adjacent fields such as Physical health. Jens Ludwig has researched Poverty in several fields, including Health care, Nursing, Special education, Early childhood education and Early childhood. The Injury prevention study which covers Suicide prevention that intersects with Human factors and ergonomics.

His most cited work include:

  • Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (613 citations)
  • Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment (560 citations)
  • Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment (560 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Jens Ludwig focuses on Demographic economics, Moving to Opportunity, Poverty, Disadvantaged and Randomized controlled trial. The study incorporates disciplines such as Actuarial science, Juvenile delinquency and Lottery in addition to Demographic economics. His research in Moving to Opportunity intersects with topics in Mental health and Social experiment.

His Poverty research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in School choice, Affect and Early childhood education. His work carried out in the field of Randomized controlled trial brings together such families of science as Psychological intervention, Pill, Intervention and Per capita. His Psychological intervention research includes elements of Test, Gerontology and Depression.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Demographic economics (38.48%)
  • Moving to Opportunity (31.18%)
  • Poverty (21.07%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Psychological intervention (16.57%)
  • Randomized controlled trial (16.29%)
  • Disadvantaged (19.66%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Psychological intervention, Randomized controlled trial, Disadvantaged, Task and Public economics. His Psychological intervention study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Test, Absolute risk reduction, Health care and Medical education. His Randomized controlled trial research focuses on subjects like Intervention, which are linked to Dropout, Test score, Graduation and Classroom management.

His study looks at the intersection of Disadvantaged and topics like Social skills with Grit. His research integrates issues of Government and Low income housing, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit in his study of Public economics. His work in Public housing tackles topics such as Demographic economics which are related to areas like Moving to Opportunity.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Human Decisions and Machine Predictions (226 citations)
  • Prediction Policy Problems. (179 citations)
  • An Experimental Evaluation of a Comprehensive Employment-Oriented Prisoner Re-entry Program (73 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Microeconomics
  • Poverty

Jens Ludwig spends much of his time researching Algorithm, Randomized controlled trial, Actuarial science, Social planner and Predictive analytics. Forcing and Affect is closely connected to Equity in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Algorithm. His studies deal with areas such as Psychological intervention, Disadvantaged, Intervention, Social skills and Dropout as well as Randomized controlled trial.

He integrates many fields, such as Psychological intervention and engineering, in his works. Jens Ludwig has researched Intervention in several fields, including Developmental psychology, Juvenile delinquency, Grit and Recidivism. His research in Actuarial science tackles topics such as Set which are related to areas like Value and Welfare.

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Best Publications

Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Jens Ludwig;Douglas L. Miller.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007)

1267 Citations

Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Jens Ludwig;Douglas L. Miller.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007)

1267 Citations

Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Jens Ludwig;Douglas L. Miller.
Research Papers in Economics (2005)

1247 Citations

Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

Jeffrey R. Kling;Jens Ludwig;Lawrence F. Katz.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2005)

966 Citations

Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

Jeffrey R. Kling;Jens Ludwig;Lawrence F. Katz.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2005)

966 Citations

Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment

Jens Ludwig;Greg J. Duncan;Paul Hirschfield.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001)

942 Citations

Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment

Jens Ludwig;Greg J. Duncan;Paul Hirschfield.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001)

942 Citations

Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education

Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Christina Weiland;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Margaret R. Burchinal.
Society for Research in Child Development (2013)

850 Citations

Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education

Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Christina Weiland;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Margaret R. Burchinal.
Society for Research in Child Development (2013)

850 Citations

Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment

Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Lisa Gennetian;Emma Adam.
The New England Journal of Medicine (2011)

821 Citations

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