Podcast appearances and mentions of urban education lab

Crime and violence have enormous social costs. These costs are disproportionately borne by economically disadvantaged groups. Finding promising ways to reduce crime at reasonable cost is therefore an important policy goal. While great progress has been made over the past several decades in medicine and public health to find ways to reduce the incidence of most leading causes of death, the nation's homicide rate is about the same as it was in 1950. Dr. Guryan and Director Yokum discuss some strategies that show promising results include programs based on cognitive behavioral therapy that help youths to stop and think for a moment before acting. About our guest: Economist Jonathan Guryan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also serves as a co-director of the Urban Education Lab, an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics, and a research consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research has received support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, W. T. Grant Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Institute for Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. In 2009, he received the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Before joining Northwestern, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Each year half a million people are murdered worldwide; and in almost every society on earth, violence is disproportionately concentrated among young people. In the United States, African American males lose nearly as many years of potential life before age 65 to homicide as to the nation’s overall leading cause of death, heart disease. Jens Ludwig , director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab and codirector of the University’s Urban Education Lab, will examine the key causes and potential remedies of youth violence, drawing on examples from the Crime Lab’s ongoing projects. Ludwig is the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s David N. Kershaw Award for contributions to public policy by age 40. In 2014 the Crime Lab received a $1 million award from the MacArthur Foundation, recognizing creative and effective institutions.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Each year half a million people are murdered worldwide; and in almost every society on earth, violence is disproportionately concentrated among young people. In the United States, African American males lose nearly as many years of potential life before age 65 to homicide as to the nation’s overall leading cause of death, heart disease. Jens Ludwig , director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab and codirector of the University’s Urban Education Lab, will examine the key causes and potential remedies of youth violence, drawing on examples from the Crime Lab’s ongoing projects. Ludwig is the McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s David N. Kershaw Award for contributions to public policy by age 40. In 2014 the Crime Lab received a $1 million award from the MacArthur Foundation, recognizing creative and effective institutions.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer announced the University’s new Urban Labs initiative on March 9, 2015, as part of an event at the Chicago Cultural Center titled “Transforming Cities with Evidence-Based Policy.” The program featured remarks by US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and a panel discussion with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, moderated by Roseanna Ander, founding executive director of UChicago’s Urban Education Lab and Crime Lab.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer announced the University’s new Urban Labs initiative on March 9, 2015, as part of an event at the Chicago Cultural Center titled “Transforming Cities with Evidence-Based Policy.” The program featured remarks by US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and a panel discussion with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, moderated by Roseanna Ander, founding executive director of UChicago’s Urban Education Lab and Crime Lab.