Is Crime Contagious?

By Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling. Journal law and economy, 2007

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Low-income housing development and crime (2011, background): “Harcourt and Ludwig as well as Kling and Ludwig (2007) and Kling et al. (2005) focus on the effects of specific measures of neighborhood social disorder and find that they are not strong predictors of violent behavior among MTO participants.”
• Multivariable Mendelian Randomization: The Use of Pleiotropic Genetic Variants to Estimate Causal Effects (2015, unknown): “The possibility of including multiple risk factors in an instrumental-variable analysis is discussed in many econometric textbooks (8), and applied instrumental-variable analyses involvingmultiple risk factors have been performed (9, 10), but we are unaware of any application of the approach in gene”