Jens Ludwig has an idea for how to fix America’s gun violence problem — and it starts by rejecting conventional wisdom from both sides of the political aisle.  <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/jens-ludwig">Jens Ludwig</a>, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4jLpn4T">Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence</a>, by Jens Ludwig (2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w28406">Scope Challenges to Social Impact</a>," by Monica Bhatt, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, and Anuj Shah (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718503115">Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear</a>," by Charles Branas, Eugenia South, Michelle Kondo, Bernadette Hohl, Philippe Bourgois, Douglas Wiebe, and John MacDonald (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018).</li><li>"<a href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/132/1/1/2724542?login=false">Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago</a>," by Sara Heller, Anuj Shah, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Harold Pollack (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/3GC6u61">Thinking, Fast and Slow</a>, by Daniel Kahneman (2013).</li><li>"<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/192946">Homicide and Suicide Rates Associated With Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act</a>," by Jens Ludwig and Philip Cook (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/3EBNm7L">The Death and Life of Great American Cities</a>, by Jane Jacobs (1992).</li><li><a href="https://crimelab.uchicago.edu/">The University of Chicago Crime Lab</a>.</li><li>"<a href="https://crimelab.uchicago.edu/projects/becoming-a-man-bam/">Becoming a Man</a>" (University of Chicago Crime Lab).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>EXTRAS:<ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/do-the-police-have-a-management-problem/">Do the Police Have a Management Problem?</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2023).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/prison-ph-d-activist-fights-peace-chicago">From prison to Ph.D, this activist fights for peace in Chicago</a>," by Kenya Downs (PBS News, 2016).</li></ul></li></ul>

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