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Jens Ludwig
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 239
Citations - 16446
Jens Ludwig is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Moving to Opportunity. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 231 publications receiving 14704 citations. Previous affiliations of Jens Ludwig include University of Washington & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment
Jens Ludwig,Jens Ludwig,Lisa Sanbonmatsu,Lisa A. Gennetian,Emma K. Adam,Greg J. Duncan,Lawrence F. Katz,Lawrence F. Katz,Ronald C. Kessler,Jeffrey R. Kling,Jeffrey R. Kling,Stacy Tessler Lindau,Robert C. Whitaker,Thomas W. McDade +13 more
TL;DR: The opportunity to move from a neighborhood with a highlevel of poverty to one with a lower level of poverty was associated with modest but potentially important reductions in the prevalence of extreme obesity and diabetes.
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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Jens Ludwig,Douglas L. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: This article found evidence of a large negative discontinuity at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children ages 5-9 from causes that could be affected by Head Start, but not for other mortality causes or birth cohorts.
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Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
TL;DR: The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities and used the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects on youth crime and delinquency.
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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Jens Ludwig,Douglas L. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found evidence of a large drop at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children from causes that could be affected by Head Start, as well as suggestive evidence for a positive effect on educational attainment.
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Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from a randomized housing-mobility experiment to study the effects of relocating families from high-to low-poverty neighborhoods on juvenile crime, finding that providing families with the opportunity to move to lower poverty neighborhoods reduces violent criminal behavior by teens.