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Jobs Only for Reducing Violence and Crime

Phase 1 & 2
Waitlist Available
Led By Harold Pollack, PhD
Research Sponsored by University of Chicago
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be younger than 65 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 2 years post-program start (june 2014)
Awards & highlights

Study Summary

Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services will be providing summer employment and social-emotional skill training to youth over the summer of 2012. The investigators are partnering with them to evaluate the effects of the program. The investigators will track applicants to the program through existing administrative databases to assess the short- and long-term effects of the government's program. The investigators hypothesize that the program will decrease violence involvement and criminal activity, increase schooling engagement, and increase future employment outcomes.

Eligible Conditions
  • Reducing Violence and Crime
  • Increased School Engagement
  • Increase Future Labor Market Outcomes

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~2 years post-program start (june 2014)
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 2 years post-program start (june 2014) for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Criminal activity
Secondary outcome measures
Employment
School engagement
Victimization

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Jobs plus Social-Emotional LearningExperimental Treatment2 Interventions
Youth will be offered a 3-hour per day, 5-day per week employment opportunity over 7 weeks. They will also be offered 2-hour per day, 5-day per week social-emotional learning programming, for which they will be paid the same hourly wage as their job ($8.25/hour).
Group II: Jobs OnlyExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Youth will be offered a 5-hour per day, 5-day per week employment opportunity over 7 weeks. They will be paid the Illinois minimum wage of $8.25 per hour.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Cook County Office of the PresidentUNKNOWN
WalmartIndustry Sponsor
1 Previous Clinical Trials
5 Total Patients Enrolled
University of ChicagoLead Sponsor
1,001 Previous Clinical Trials
816,096 Total Patients Enrolled

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
The Effects of Summer Employment on Disadvantaged Youth: Experimental Evidence
2012. "The Effects of Summer Employment on Disadvantaged Youth: Experimental Evidence". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01947452.
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