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<p>Jens Ludwig has an idea for how to fix America’s gun violence problem — and it starts by rejecting conventional wisdom from both sides of the political aisle. </p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/jens-ludwig">Jens Ludwig</a>, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab.</li></ul></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><strong>RESOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4jLpn4T"><i>Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence</i></a><i>,</i> by Jens Ludwig (2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w28406">Scope Challenges to Social Impact</a>," by Monica Bhatt, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, and Anuj Shah <i>(National Bureau of Economic Research,</i> 2021).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718503115">Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear</a...