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SUMMARY:Janet Currie\, Princeton University\, "Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development.  Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health and access to health care\, environmental threats to health\, the important role of mental health\, and the long-run impact of health problems in pregnancy and early childhood.  Currie is a member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the National Academy of Medicine\, and of the American Academy of Art and Sciences.  She will be the President of the American Economic Association in 2024 and has served as the President of the American Society of Health Economics\, the Society of Labor Economics\, the Eastern Economic Association\, and the Western Economic Association.  She is the Distinguished CES Fellow in 2023\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science\, the Society of Labor Economists\, and of the Econometric Society\, and has honorary degrees from the University of Lyon and the University of Zurich.  She was a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist in 2019\, the winner of the 2023 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize\, one of the top 10 women in Economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015\, and an Alumna of Influence by the University of Toronto in 2012.  She has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science\, as the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature\, and on the editorial boards of many other journals. \n  \n\n\n\nInvesting in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The child mental health crisis has been described as the “defining public health crisis of our time.” This article addresses three myths about the crisis: 1) The idea that the crisis is new; 2) The belief that increases in youth suicide mainly reflect deterioration in children’s underlying mental health; 3) The myth that investments in children have little impact on children’s mental health. In fact\, the crisis has existed for decades\, youth suicides vary asynchronously with other mental health measures and are impacted by external factors such as firearms legislation\, and investments can improve child mental health and prevent suicide. \n  \nA recording of Janet Currie’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/janet-currie-princeton-university/
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SUMMARY:Jens Ludwig\, University of Chicago\, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nBiography: Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago\, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research working group on the economics of crime\, and Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. He helped found the Crime Lab 16 years ago to serve as a sort of R&D partner to the public sector to help address major social problems like gun violence\, and has led to nationwide efforts to change policing\, community violence intervention\, and social programs for youth violence prevention\, as well as new data-driven decision tools in use across the entire New York City court system. This work has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and featured in national news outlets like the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, NPR and PBS News Hour. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the  National Academy of Science’s Committee on Law and Justice. \nUnforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence\nWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? \nIn 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. Unforgiving Places is Ludwig’s revelatory portrait of gun violence in America’s most famously maligned city. \nDisproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people\, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually grow out of a more fleeting source: interpersonal conflict\, especially arguments. By examining why some arguments turn tragic while others don’t\, Ludwig shows gun violence to be more circumstantial—and more solvable—than our traditional approaches lead us to believe. \nDrawing on decades of research and Ludwig’s immersive fieldwork in Chicago\, including “countless hours spent in schools\, parks\, playgrounds\, housing developments\, courtrooms\, jails\, police stations\, police cars\, and lots and lots of McDonald’ses\,” Unforgiving Places is a breakthrough work at the cutting edge of behavioral economics. As Ludwig shows\, progress on gun violence doesn’t require America to solve every other social problem first; it only requires that we find ways to intervene in the places and the ten-minute windows where human behaviors predictably go haywire. \n  \nA recording of Jens Ludwig’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jens-ludwig-university-of-chicago-unforgiving-places-the-unexpected-origins-of-american-gun-violence/
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