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Reducing Crime and Violence : Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia
Blattman, Christopher - 2017
skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half … also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone dramatically reduced crime and violence, but effects dissipated … within a year. When cash followed therapy, however, crime and violence decreased by as much as 50 percent for at least a year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969442
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Measuring the Measurement Error : A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
Field experiments rely heavily on self-reported data, but subjects may misreport behaviors, especially sensitive ones such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation technique that uses intensive qualitative work to assess survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017511
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years : Experimental Evidence
Blattman, Christopher; Chaskel, Sebastian; Jamison, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that … violence, especially when policymakers are searching for alternatives to aggressive policing and incarceration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210077
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Measuring the Measurement Error : A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
Field experiments rely heavily on self-reported data, but subjects may misreport behaviors, especially sensitive ones such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation technique that uses intensive qualitative work to assess survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457221
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Measuring the Measurement Error : A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
Blattman, Christopher; Jamison, Julian C.; … - 2015
Field experiments rely heavily on self-reported data, but subjects may misreport behaviors, especially sensitive ones such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation technique that uses intensive qualitative work to assess survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144858
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years : Experimental Evidence
Blattman, Christopher; Chaskel, Sebastian; Jamison, … - 2022
Several small, short-term, or non-experimental studies show that cognitive behavioral-informed trainings reduce antisocial behaviors for 1–2 years. But there is no large-scale, long-term research on persistence. We follow 999 high-risk men in Liberia 10 years after randomization into: 8 weeks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084159
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Reducing Crime and Violence : Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Blattman, Christopher - 2016
adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to … lifestyle. We also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone initially reduced crime and violence, but effects … dissipated over time. When cash followed therapy, crime and violence decreased dramatically for at least a year. We hypothesize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004910
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Reducing Crime and Violence : Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to … lifestyle. We also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone initially reduced crime and violence, but effects … dissipated over time. When cash followed therapy, crime and violence decreased dramatically for at least a year. We hypothesize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022163
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Reducing crime and violence : Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to … lifestyle. We also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone initially reduced crime and violence, but effects … dissipated over time. When cash followed therapy, crime and violence decreased dramatically for at least a year. We hypothesize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457463
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Improving Mental Well-Being and Productivity of Small-Medium Entrepreneurs in Fragile, Conflict and Violence Affected Areas : Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trainings Help?
Saraf, Priyam - 2018
medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable … of regular business-related entrepreneurial stressors with the uncertainties of a fragile, conflict, and violence … important drivers of income in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts, future research might benefit from evaluating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912340