Jens Otto Ludwig (born 1968 in

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) is a

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economist whose research focuses on social policy, particularly urban issues such as poverty, crime, and education. He is

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Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and

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at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Co-Director of the university's Urban Education and

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Labs. Ludwig is also Project Director for the long-term evaluation of the

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(MTO) randomized housing mobility experiment at the

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(NBER), where he is also Co-Director of the Working Group on Economics of Crime and a Research Associate in the Program on Children and the Health Economics Program. Among a variety of other current and previous posts, in 2012 Ludwig was also elected as Vice President of Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2006 he received the David N. Kershaw Prize for Contributions to Public Policy by Age 40.

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University of Chicago faculty bio

Personal NBER page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ludwig, Jens 1968 births Living people 21st-century American economists Rutgers University alumni Duke University alumni University of Chicago faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine German emigrants to the United States Writers from Frankfurt