Lecture Details Researchers often pursue ideas because they are novel and innovative. Breaking new ground is clearly important, and being "first" can help a paper get published. But the drive to be new can also push researchers away from the kinds of iterative research questions that help decision-makers implement effective policy (and towards surprising results that can be hard to replicate). This talk will tell the story of a policy-research partnership that started with a new and surprising finding—that summer jobs programs don't actually help future youth employment, but do reduce violence—then kept iterating to explore how, why, and for …

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