Jens Ludwig

Personal Website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ludwigj

Jens Ludwig is McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, Co-Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and co-director of the NBER’s working group on the Economics of Crime.  He conducts empirical research in law and economics and social policy, with a focus on urban poverty, education, crime, and housing.  He is the co-author with Duke University professor Philip J. Cook of the book Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press 2000) and co-editor with Cook of Evaluating Gun Policy (Brookings Institution Press 2003).  Prior to coming to the University of Chicago, he was Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University.  He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Criminology, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  In 2006 he received the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s David N. Kershaw Prize for distinguished contributions to public policy by the age of 40.