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Stopping a Bullet with a Summer Job
J-PAL policy briefcase; synthesis of evaluations · J-PAL Policy Briefcase
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Post-Program Behavioral Persistence vs. Incapacitation
"If summer jobs programs merely kept youth busy during the summer, the bulk of the violence reductions should not have occurred after the programs ended."
Crime-Type Heterogeneity in Social Interventions
"Although the OSC+ program did not reduce nonviolent crime, and researchers found suggestive evidence of an increase in property crime, it is not uncommon for interventions to impact violence-which by nature involves conflict-differently from other crime outcomes."
The Post-Program Labor Market Dissipation Effect
"Besides a small effect in the year after the program summer, SYEP participation did not help youth find jobs in subsequent years."
Post-Program Violence Reduction via Workplace Social-Emotional Learning
"Across the 2012 and 2013 cohorts, participating in OSC+ reduced the number of violent crime arrests one year after random assignment by 6.4 arrests per 100 youth, from a baseline of 18.3 arrests per 100 youth (a 35 percent reduction). The bulk of this decline occurred after the program ended."
Six-to-One Social Benefit-to-Cost Efficiency in Youth Employment
"Researchers estimate that the social benefits from the reduction in violence from the OSC+ program may be nearly six times larger than the program's costs."
Youth Employment Program Incarceration and Mortality Mitigation
"SYEP participation between 2005 and 2008 reduced the probability that youth would serve time in prison by 2013 by 0.10 percentage points, a 10 percent reduction from the baseline incarceration rate of 0.99 percent, which translated into 112 fewer youth imprisoned."