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SUMMARY:Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007\, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen\, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later\, the answers aren’t what he expected. This seminar (based on a forthcoming book) describes how and why everyone’s conventional wisdom about gun violence is at best incomplete\, how behavioral economics gives us a better way to understand the problem\, and how a sustained partnership between the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the city of Chicago have helped identify and scale new solutions. \nEvent Recording\n \n\nAbout the Speaker\nJens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago\, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research working group on the economics of crime\, and Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab\, which he helped found 17 years ago as an R&D partner for the public sector to solve social problems. Crime Lab projects have led to changes in policy in cities around the country\, been published in leading scientific outlets like the Quarterly Journal of Economics and American Economic Review\, and featured in national news outlets like the New York Times\, Washington Post and PBS News Hour. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Law and Justice.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/unforgiving-places-the-unexpected-origins-of-american-gun-violence/
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