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Overview

Jens Ludwig is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with notable contributions across several subfields including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, safety research, education, and political science and international relations.

Their work covers a diverse range of topics with the most frequent areas of study being crime patterns and interventions, ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, policing practices and perceptions, law, economics and judicial systems, income, poverty and inequality, crime, illicit activities and governance, as well as experimental learning in engineering.

Jens Ludwig has published extensively, with a significant number of papers appearing in key venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, AEA Papers and Proceedings, and Nature.

Recent publications include:

  • "Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science," 2021, Nature
  • "Algorithms as discrimination detectors," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents," 2023, American Economic Review
  • "An Economic Perspective on Algorithmic Fairness," 2020, AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • "Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System," 2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives

The scientist collaborates frequently with several other researchers identified as regular co-authors. These include Sendhil Mullainathan, Ashesh Rambachan, Jon Kleinberg, Amanda Agan, and Diag Davenport.

Best Publications

  • Human Decisions and Machine Predictions

    Jon Kleinberg;Himabindu Lakkaraju;Jure Leskovec;Jens Ludwig

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

    Jens Ludwig;Douglas L. Miller

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

    Jens Ludwig;Douglas L. Miller

  • Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment

    Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Lisa Gennetian;Emma Adam

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

    Jeffrey R. Kling;Jens Ludwig;Lawrence F. Katz

  • Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education

    Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Christina Weiland;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Margaret R. Burchinal

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

    Jens Ludwig;Greg J. Duncan;Paul Hirschfield

  • Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults

    Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Greg J. Duncan;Lisa A. Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz;Lawrence F. Katz

  • Prediction Policy Problems.

    Jon Kleinberg;Jens Ludwig;Sendhil Mullainathan;Ziad Obermeyer

  • Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

    Jens Ludwig;Greg J Duncan;Lisa A Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz

  • Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

    Jens Ludwig;Greg J. Duncan;Lisa A. Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz

  • The Burden of “Acting White”: Do Black Adolescents Disparage Academic Achievement?

    Phillip J. Cook;Jens Ludwig

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago

    Sara B. Heller;Anuj K. Shah;Jonathan Guryan;Jens Ludwig

  • Gun Violence: The Real Costs

    Philip J. Cook;Jens Ludwig

  • Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

    Jon M. Kleinberg;Jens Ludwig;Sendhil Mullainathan;Cass R. Sunstein

  • Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program -- Final Impacts Evaluation

    Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Lawrence F. Katz;Lawrence F. Katz;Lisa A. Gennetian

  • What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

    Jens Ludwig;Jeffrey B. Liebman;Jeffrey R. Kling;Greg J. Duncan

  • Homicide and suicide rates associated with implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.

    Jens Ludwig;Philip J. Cook

  • Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

    Jens Ludwig;Jeffrey R. Kling;Sendhil Mullainathan

  • Human Decisions and Machine Predictions

    Jon Kleinberg;Himabindu Lakkaraju;Jure Leskovec;Jens Ludwig

  • Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms

    Jon Kleinberg;Jens Ludwig;Sendhil Mullainathan;Cass R. Sunstein

  • The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago

    Philip J Cook;Kenneth Dodge;George Farkas;Roland G Fryer

  • The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

    Brian A. Jacob;Jens Ludwig

  • The Social Costs of Gun Ownership

    Phillip J Cook;Jens Ludwig

  • Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning

    Aaron Chalfin;Oren Danieli;Andrew Blair Hillis;Zubin Jelveh

  • Concealed-gun-carrying laws and violent crime: evidence from state panel data

    Jens Ludwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip J. Cook
Philip J. Cook Duke University
Jeffrey R. Kling
Jeffrey R. Kling National Bureau of Economic Research
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Lawrence F. Katz
Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University
Lisa A. Gennetian
Lisa A. Gennetian Duke University
Brian A. Jacob
Brian A. Jacob University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Harold A. Pollack
Harold A. Pollack University of Chicago
Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg Cornell University
Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University

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