What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers aren’t what he expected. This seminar (based on a forthcoming book) describes how and why everyone’s conventional wisdom about gun violence is at best incomplete, how behavioral economics gives us a better way to understand the problem, and how a sustained partnership between the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the city of Chicago have helped identify and scale new solutions.

Book sale and signing will immediately follow this event.

Speaker

Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago

Panelists

Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs,
Princeton University.

Chico Tillmon, Executive Director, University of Chicago, Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy.

Moderator: 

Patrick Sharkey, William S Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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