Episode 117: Nour Abdul-Razzak on cognitive behavioral therapy for at-risk youth

Nour Abdul-Razzak talks about her research on a cognitive behavioral therapy program called Choose to Change.

“Longer-term Impacts of a Youth Behavioral Science Intervention: Experimental Evidence from Chicago” by Nour Abdul-Razzak, Brandon Domash, Kelly Hallberg, and Cristobal Pinto Poehls.

• Scarcity: Why having too little means so much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

• “Thinking, fast and slow? Some field experiments to reduce crime and dropout in Chicago” by Sara B. Heller, Anuj K. Shah, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Harold A. Pollack.

• “Reducing crime and violence: Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia” by Christopher Blattman, Julian C. Jamison, and Margaret Sheridan.

• “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over Ten Years: Experimental Evidence” by Christopher Blattman, Sebastian Chaskel, Julian C. Jamison, and Margaret Sheridan.

• “Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago" by Monica P. Bhatt, Sara B. Heller, Max Kapustin, Marianne Bertrand, and Christopher Blattman.

• Probable Causation Episode 88: Sara Heller and Max Kapustin.

• "Therapy to Reduce Violence and Improve Institutional Safety During Incarceration" by Bill Evans, Tyler Giles, and Rebecca Margolit-Chan.

• "Can Recidivism be Prevented from Behind Bars? Evidence from a Behavioral Program" by William Arbour.

• Probable Causation Episode 102: William Arbour.

• "'Something Works' in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program" by Marcella Alsan, Arkey Barnett, Peter Hull, Crystal S. Yang.

• Probable Causation Episode 113: Peter Hull .

• “A Cognitive View of Policing” by Oeindrila Dube, Sandy Jo MacArthur, and Anuj Shah.

• Probable Causation Episode 104: Oeindrila Dube.