Jens Ludwig

Jens Ludwig is the McCormick Foundation professor of social service administration, law, and public policy at the University of Chicago, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), co-director of the NBER’s Working Group on the Economics of Crime, and co-director of the University of Chicago's Crime Lab and the Urban Education Lab. His research interests are in the areas of social policy and urban issues. He currently serves as project director for the NBER’s long-term study of HUD’s Moving to Opportunity experiment. He is co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources and a member of the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.  In 2006 he was awarded the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s David Kershaw Prize for contributions to public policy by age 40.

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