Jens Ludwig
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Recent Articles
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Cook P, Jeuland M, Ludwig J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2025 Jan;
122(4):e2419864122.
PMID: 39835906
Justifying a proposed government regulation intended to reduce firearm violence requires a conceptually sound estimate of the monetized value of that impact and how that value is distributed across the...
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Kleinberg J, Ludwig J, Mullainathan S, Raghavan M
Perspect Psychol Sci
. 2023 Dec;
19(5):827-838.
PMID: 38085919
More and more machine learning is applied to human behavior. Increasingly these algorithms suffer from a hidden-but serious-problem. It arises because they often predict one thing while hoping for another....
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Harding D, Sanbonmatsu L, Duncan G, Gennetian L, Katz L, Kessler R, et al.
Hous Policy Debate
. 2023 Jun;
33(2):453-486.
PMID: 37347089
Although non-experimental studies find robust neighborhood effects on adults, such findings have been challenged by results from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) residential mobility experiment. Using a within-study comparison design,...
4.
Ludwig J, Kleinberg J, Mullainathan S
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2023 May;
120(24):e2307285120.
PMID: 37256925
No abstract available.
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Milkman K, Gandhi L, Patel M, Graci H, Gromet D, Ho H, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2022 Feb;
119(6).
PMID: 35105809
Encouraging vaccination is a pressing policy problem. To assess whether text-based reminders can encourage pharmacy vaccination and what kinds of messages work best, we conducted a megastudy. We randomly assigned...
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Milkman K, Gromet D, Ho H, Kay J, Lee T, Pandiloski P, et al.
Nature
. 2021 Dec;
600(7889):478-483.
PMID: 34880497
Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens' decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes...
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Kleinberg J, Ludwig J, Mullainathan S, Sunstein C
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2020 Jul;
117(48):30096-30100.
PMID: 32723823
Preventing discrimination requires that we have means of detecting it, and this can be enormously difficult when human beings are making the underlying decisions. As applied today, algorithms can increase...
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Lakkaraju H, Kleinberg J, Leskovec J, Ludwig J, Mullainathan S
KDD
. 2018 May;
2017:275-284.
PMID: 29780658
Evaluating whether machines improve on human performance is one of the central questions of machine learning. However, there are many domains where the data is in the sense that the...
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Kleinberg J, Lakkaraju H, Leskovec J, Ludwig J, Mullainathan S
Q J Econ
. 2018 May;
133(1):237-293.
PMID: 29755141
Can machine learning improve human decision making? Bail decisions provide a good test case. Millions of times each year, judges make jail-or-release decisions that hinge on a prediction of what...
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Heller S, Shah A, Guryan J, Ludwig J, Mullainathan S, Pollack H
Q J Econ
. 2018 Feb;
132(1):1-54.
PMID: 29456270
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...