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The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime

Weiner, David A. - 2009

One of the most striking features of crime in America is its disproportionate concentration in disadvantaged, racially segregated communities, which has long raised concern that segregation itself may contribute to criminal behavior. Yet little is known about whether government efforts to reduce...

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Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Vigdor, Jacob - 2007

The mid-1980s witnessed breaks in two important trends related to race and schooling. School segregation, which had been declining, began a period of relative stasis. Black-white test score gaps, which had also been declining, also stagnated. The notion that these two phenomena may be related is...

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Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout : A Randomized Field Experiment

Heller, Sara - 2013

Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States, although identifying successful interventions for adolescents - particularly males - has proven challenging. This paper reports results from a large randomized controlled trial of an...

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

Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2004

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate...

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The Social Costs of Gun Ownership

Cook, Phillip J. - 2004

This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, which we validate. Using county-...

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

Heller, Sara B. - 2015

We present the results of three large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) carried out in Chicago, testing interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision-making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the...

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Is Crime Contagious?

Ludwig, Jens - 2006

Understanding whether criminal behavior is "contagious" is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...

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The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary : Deterrence vs Inducement

Cook, Philip J. - 2002

The proposition that widespread gun ownership serves as a deterrent to residential burglary is widely touted by advocates, but the evidence is weak, consisting of anecdotes, interviews with burglars, casual comparisons with other countries, and the like. A more systematic exploration requires...

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The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence : Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data

Ludwig, Jens - 1999

) method. We focus on gun violence, a crime of growing policy concern in America. Our data come from a national survey in which … we ask respondents referendum-type questions that elicit their willingness-to-pay (WTP) to reduce gun violence by 30 … percent. We estimate that the public's WTP to reduce gun violence by 30 percent equals $23.8 billion, or $750,000 per injury …

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Body-Worn Cameras in Policing : Benefits and Costs

Williams, Morgan C. <Jr.>; Weil, Nathan; Rasich, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are an increasingly common tool for police oversight, accountability, and transparency, yet there remains uncertainty about their impacts on policing outcomes. This paper reviews what we know about the benefits of BWCs and how those benefits compare to the costs of this...

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