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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21178
来源ID	Working Paper 21178
	Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago
	Sara B. Heller; Anuj K. Shah; Jonathan Guryan; Jens Ludwig; Sendhil Mullainathan; Harold A. Pollack
发表日期	2015-06-01
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	We present the results of three large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) carried out in Chicago, testing interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision-making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the non-profit Youth Guidance, in two RCTs implemented in 2009–10 and 2013– 15. In the two studies participation in the program reduced total arrests during the intervention period by 28–35%, reduced violent-crime arrests by 45–50%, improved school engagement, and in the first study where we have follow-up data, increased graduation rates by 12–19%. The third RCT tested a program with partially overlapping components carried out in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC), which reduced readmission rates to the facility by 21%. These large behavioral responses combined with modest program costs imply benefit-cost ratios for these interventions from 5-to-1 up to 30-to-1 or more. Our data on mechanisms are not ideal, but we find no positive evidence that these effects are due to changes in emotional intelligence or social skills, self-control or “grit,” or a generic mentoring effect. We find suggestive support for the hypothesis that the programs work by helping youth slow down and reflect on whether their automatic thoughts and behaviors are well suited to the situation they are in, or whether the situation could be construed differently.
主题	Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Other ; Law and Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21178
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578883
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sara B. Heller,Anuj K. Shah,Jonathan Guryan,et al. Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago. 2015.