Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment

By Sara B. Heller, Harold A. Pollack, R. Ander, Jens Ludwig. 2013

99 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, General Health Professions

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How researchers see this paper

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Jeannie Annan
2. Christopher Blattman
3. Philip J Cook
4. Anthony A. Braga
5. Jens Ludwig

In Education

1. Jens Ludwig
2. Christopher Blattman
3. Jeannie Annan
4. Philip J Cook
5. Brian A. Jacob
6. Eric A. Hanushek
7. Randall Reback
8. Roland G. Fryer

In General Health Professions

1. Brian A. Jacob
2. Christopher Blattman
3. Jeannie Annan
4. Philip J Cook
5. Jens Ludwig
6. Songman Kang
7. Michael E. Sobel

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Housing Assistance on Child Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Lottery (2015, methodology): “We calculate this using the formula from Heller et al. (2013) to account for the presence of control crossovers.”
• An Experimental Evaluation of a Comprehensive Employment-Oriented Prisoner Re-entry Program (2014, background): “…research suggests that a great deal of criminal behavior may be driven by automatic (or what psychologists call ‘‘system one’’) behavior, which may be addressed by programming that helps people recognize and avoid these responses in high-stakes situations (Beck 2011; Heller et al. 2013; Cook 2014).”
• Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, methodology): “Successful programs have tended to target specific behaviors and “character” skills, often using the techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT (Heckman and Kautz 2013; Heller et al. 2013, 2015).”