Jens Ludwig : Publications
Books and Monographs
Evaluating Gun Policy (Brookings Institution Press 2003) (edited with Philip J. Cook).
Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press 2000) (with Philip J. Cook).
Guns in America: Results of a Comprehensive Survey on Private Firearms Ownership and Use (Police Foundation 1997) (abridged version published as a Research In Brief, National Institute of Justice, 1997, NCJ 165476) (with Philip J. Cook).
Learning and Earning: An Employer's Look at School-to-Work Investments (American Society for Training and Development 1997) (with Laurie J. Bassi, Theresa Feeley, John Hillmeyer).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Social / Education Policy
"Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach," Quarterly Journal of Economics (also published as NBER Working Paper 11702 and IRP DP 131-05) (forthcoming) (with Douglas L. Miller).
"'Culture' and the intergenerational transmission of poverty: The prevention paradox," Future of Children (forthcoming) (with Susan E. Mayer).
"Success by Ten: Intervening Early, Often and Effectively in the Education of Young Children," Hamilton Project White Paper (Brookings Institution 2006) (with Isabel Sawhill).
"Interpreting the WIC Debate," 24 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management691 (2005) (with Matthew Miller).
"Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment," 120 Quarterly Journal of Economics 87 (2005) (with Jeffrey R. Kling and Lawrence F. Katz).
"Housing Vouchers and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment," 89 Journal of Public Economics 131 (2005) (with Greg J. Duncan and Joshua Pinkston).
"Measuring Discrimination in Education: Are Methodologies from Labor and Housing Markets Useful?" Teacher's College Record (forthcoming) (with Harry J. Holzer).
"The Endogeneity Problem in Developmental Studies," 1 Research in Human Development 59 (2004) (with Greg J. Duncan and Katherine A. Magnuson).
"MTO's Effects on Children and Parents: Evidence from Baltimore," in Choosing a Better Life, John Goering and Judith Feins, eds. (Urban Institute Press 2003) (with Greg J. Duncan and Helen F. Ladd).
"The Effects of MTO on Educational Opportunities in Baltimore: Early Evidence," in Choosing a Better Life, John Goering and Judith Feins, eds. (Urban Institute Press 2003) (with Helen F. Ladd).
"Improving Neighborhoods for Poor Children," in One Percent for the Kids: New Policies, Brighter Futures for America's Children, Isabel Sawhill, ed. (Brookings Press 2003).
"Profiting from Learning: Firm-level Effects of Training Investments and Market Implications," 24 Singapore Management Review 61 (2002) (with Laurie J. Bassi, Daniel P. McMurrer and Mark Van Buren).
"The Benefits and Costs of Residential Mobility Programs," 17 Housing Studies125 (2002) (with Michael Johnson and Helen F. Ladd).
"Problems in the Estimation of School Effects: Insights from Improved Models," in Improving Educational Productivity, David H. Monk and Herbert J. Walberg, eds. (Information Age Publishing 2001).
"Urban Poverty and Educational Outcomes," Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, William Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack, eds. (Brookings Institution 2001) (with Helen F. Ladd and Greg J. Duncan).
"School to Work Programs in the U.S.: A Multi-Firm Case Study of Training, Benefits and Costs," 53 Industrial and Labor Relations Review 219 (2000) (with Laurie J. Bassi).
"Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment," 116 Quarterly Journal of Economics 655 (2001) (with Greg J. Duncan and Paul Hirschfield).
"The Puzzling Case of School Spending and Student Resources," 21 Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis 385 (1999) (with Laurie J. Bassi).
"Residential Relocation Policies in the United States: The Moving to Opportunity Demonstration," 14 Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 1 (1999) (with Helen F. Ladd).
"The Burden of 'Acting White': Do Black Adolescents Disparage Academic Achievement?" in The Black-White Test Score Gap, Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, eds. (Brookings Institution Press 1998) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Housing Vouchers, Residential Relocation, and Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Baltimore," 87 American Economic Review 272 (1997) (with Helen F. Ladd).
"Weighing the "Burden of 'Acting White'": Are There Race Differences in Attitudes Towards Education?" 16 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 256 (1997) (with Philip J. Cook).
Crime Policy / Injury Reduction
"Aiming for Evidence-Based Gun Policy," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2006) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Assigning Deviant Youth to Minimize Total Harm," in Deviant Peer Contagion, Kenneth Dodge, Joan McCord and Tom Dishion, eds. (2006) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Promising Solutions in Housing and the Community," in Deviant Peer Contagion, Kenneth Dodge, Joan McCord and Tom Dishion, eds. (2006) (with Greg Duncan).
"The Social Costs of Gun Ownership," 90 Journal of Public Economics 379 (2006) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a 5 City Social Experiment," University of Chicago Law Review (2006) (with Bernard E.Harcourt).
"Criminal Records of Homicide Offenders," 294 Journal of the American Medical Association 598 (2005) (with Philip J. Cook and Anthony Braga).
"Better Gun Enforcement, Less Crime," 4 Criminology and Public Policy 677 (2005).
"Gun Crime and Gun Control: The Hawaiian Experience," 2005 University of Chicago Legal Forum 55 (with Joseph Peters and Philip J. Cook).
"Anti-depressants, Suicide and Drug Regulation," 24 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 249 (2005) (with Dave Marcotte).
"Principles for Effective Gun Policy," LXXIII Fordham Law Review 589 (2004) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Does Gun Prevalence Affect Teen Gun Carrying After All?" 42 Criminology 27 (2004) (with Philip J. Cook).
"The Effects of the Brady Act on Gun Violence," in Guns, Crime and Punishment in America, Bernard Harcourt, ed. (New York University Press 2003) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Policing Crime Guns,"in Evaluating Gun Policy, Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, eds. (Brookings 2003) (with Jacqueline Cohen).
"Do Prison Sentence Enhancements Reduce Gun Crime? The Case of Project Exile,"in Evaluating Gun Policy, Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, eds. (Brookings 2003) (with Steven Raphael).
"The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary: Deterrence vs. Inducement," in Evaluating Gun Policy, Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, eds. (Brookings 2003) (with Philip J. Cook) (also published as NBER working paper # 8926).
"The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year?" 16 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 463 (1997) (with Philip J. Cook and David Hemenway).
"Fact-Free Gun Policy?" 151 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1329 (2003) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Evaluating Gun-Policy Evaluations," 2 Criminology and Public Policy 411 (2003).
"The Costs of Gun Violence Against Children," 12 The Future of Children 87 (2002) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Firearms," in Regulation through Litigation, W. Kip Viscusi, ed. (Brookings Institution Press 2002) (with Philip J. Cook).
"The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence," 2 Harvard Health Policy Review 23 (2001) (with Philip J. Cook).
"The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data," 22 Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 207 (2001) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Gun Self-Defense and Deterrence," in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 27, Michael Tonry, ed. (University of Chicago Press 2000).
"Homicide and Suicide Rates Associated with Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act," 284 Journal of the American Medical Association 585 (2000) (with Philip J. Cook).
"The Medical Costs of Gunshot Injuries in the United States," 282 Journal of the American Medical Association 447 (1999) (with Philip J. Cook, Bruce Lawrence, and Ted R. Miller).
"The Gender Gap in Reporting Household Gun Ownership," 88 American Journal of Public Health 1715 (1998) (with Philip J. Cook and Tom W. Smith).
"Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data," 18 International Review of Law and Economics 239 (1998).
"Defensive Gun Uses: New Evidence from a National Telephone Survey," 14 Journal of Quantitative Criminology 111(with Philip J. Cook).
"No Proof that Right-to-Carry Laws Reduce Violence," 88 American Journal of Public Health 982 (1998) (with Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick).
"Flawed Gun Policy Research May Endanger Public Safety," 87 American Journal of Public Health 918 (1997) (with Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick, and Kathleen Lester).
"Pragmatic Gun Policy," in Evaluating Gun Policy, Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, eds. (Brookings 2003) (with Philip J. Cook).
Essays, Comments, and Op-Eds
"Comment on Kristin Turney et al., 'Neighborhood Effects on Barriers to Employment," Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Gary Burtless and Janet Rothenberg Pack, eds. (Brookings Institution Press 2006).
"Comment on Brian Jacob, 'Getting Inside Accountability: Lessons from Chicago'," Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, William Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack, eds. (Brookings Institution Press 2003).
"Comment on Michael Nettles, 'High Schools on the Front Line," Brookings Papers on Education Policy, Diane Ravitch, ed. (Brookings 2003).
"No Magic Bullet for Gun Violence," The Washington Post, Sunday, March 9, 2003, p. B8 (with Steven Raphael).
"Educational Achievement and Black-White Inequality: The Great Unknown," 3 Education Next 79 (2003).
"Lessons in Gun Control," Raleigh News and Observer, November 3, 2002, p. 25A (with Philip J. Cook).
"Comment on Ronald Ferguson's 'A Diagnostic Analysis of Black-White GPA Disparities in Shaker Heights, Ohio,'" Brookings Papers on Education Policy, Diane Ravitch, ed. (Brookings Institution Press 2001).
"Can Residential Mobility Improve the Life Chances of Poor Children?" Brookings Children's Roundtable Policy Brief (Brookings 2000) (with Greg J. Duncan).
"Gun Violence: The Real Costs," 2 The Milken Institute Review 49 (2000) (with Philip J. Cook).
"Can Gun Control Work?" The Blue and Gray, September 25, 2000, p8.
"Has the Brady Act been successful?" Charlotte Observer, August 15, 2000 (with Philip J. Cook).
"Guns and Numbers," 30 The Washington Monthly 50 (1998).
"Fighting Fire with Fire Might Bring Down Crime Rate," Honolulu Advertiser, May 24, 1998, p. B3 (with Jeffrey Conte).
"Do Carry-Concealed Weapons Laws Deter Crime?" 70 Spectrum: The Journal of State Government 29 (1997).
"HUD's Moving to Opportunity Demonstration: Uncertain Benefits, Unlikely Costs, Unfortunate Politics," 1 Georgetown Public Policy Review 25 (with Simeon Stolzberg).
Book Reviews
"Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration, by Ingrid Gould Ellen," 75 Social Service Review685 (2001).
"Crossing the Class and Color Lines: From Public Housing to White Suburbia, by Leonard Rubinowitz and James Rosenbaum," 75 Social Service Review178 (2001).
"More Guns, Less Crime, by John R. Lott, Jr," 28 Contemporary Sociology 466.
"Making a Killing, by Tom Diaz," Georgetown Public Policy Review (with Heath Einstein).
"Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor, by Jeffrey Henig," 8 Governance 165 (1995).
