Good on Paper

Why Is One Chicago Neighborhood Twice as Deadly as Another?

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Most gun deaths aren’t premeditated, so how can we stop gun violence before it happens? The University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig makes the case for thinking differently about the source of America’s gun-violence problem. 


Further reading: 

  • Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence, by Jens Ludwig 
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman 
  • Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
  • The study behind Ludwig’s Good on Paper answer: “The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program” 

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