Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago.

Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized controlled trial () of a community-researcher partnership called the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI) Chicago. The program offered an 18-month job alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and other social support.

Housing Voucher Take-Up and Labor Market Impacts.

Low participation rates in government assistance programs are a major policy concern in the United States. This paper studies take-up of Section 8 housing vouchers, a program in which take-up rates are quite low among interested and eligible households. We link 18,109 households in Chicago that were offered vouchers through a lottery to administrative data and study how baseline employment, earnings, public assistance, arrests, residential location, and children's academic performance predict take-up.