Impact Evaluation 4 Peace24-27 March 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
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Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job?
Sara Heller [email protected]
University of Pennsylvania &University of Chicago Crime Lab
Made possible by generous support from the U.S. Department of Labor & U.S. Department of Justice (OJJDP)
Latin America and the Caribbean’s Citizen SecurityTeam
Sara Heller [email protected]
University of Pennsylvania &University of Chicago Crime Lab
Made possible by generous support from the U.S. Department of Labor & U.S. Department of Justice (OJJDP)
Does Nothing Stop a Bullet Like a Job?
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Evidence?
Intensive Employment Programs
Crime goes
or or ✕
Chicago’s Approach
Part-time Summer Job + Mentor
Will It Work??
NOBODY KNOWS
Arrests for violent crime
After 9 months
3.5
7.2 per 100
youth
Control Treatment
- 51%
What’s Next?
• Still to come– Employment outcomes,
longer follow-up•More to learn – For whom? In what context?
Summer jobs can reduce violence - In 8 weeks! More not always better
- Adolescence is not too late