Sara Heller
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Heller studies interventions to reduce crime and improve other life outcomes among disadvantaged youth. She uses large-scale experiments to isolate the causal effects of a variety of programs, including those promoting youth employment.
- Heller, Sara, Kessler, Judd B. 2019. How to Allocate Slots: the Market Design of Summer Youth Employment Programs. Fair by Design: Economic Design Approaches to Inequality
- Heller, Sara, Davis, J M.V.. 2019. Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs. The Review of Economics and Statistics :1-47.
- Heller, Sara, Davis, Jonathan . 2017. Using Causal Forests to Predict Treatment Heterogeneity: An Application to Summer Jobs. American Economic Review 107(5):546-550.
- Heller, Sara. 2016. Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago. Quarterly Journal of Economics 132(1):1-54.
- Heller, Sara. 2014. Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth. Science 346(6214):1219-1223.